HOWELL – A fire destroyed an Alex Drive home but there were no injuries thanks to a helpful neighbor, police said.
“Sadly, today a family lost their home,” Police Chief Andrew Kudrick said on March 11. “Fortunately, everyone was able to escape. The neighbor across the street realized the house was on fire and ran over and alerted the residents who were not aware the entire exterior front of their house was ablaze.”
Multiple local emergency crews responded to the blaze which eventually claimed the home.
“As firefighters fought the main fire, several Howell police officers grabbed fire extinguishers from their vehicles, garden hoses from other homes and booster lines from additional arriving fire trucks and got to work assisting neighbors as they attempted to put out smaller fires around their houses,” he said. “The blaze was so intense the woods caught on fire, a shed and fence two houses down began to burn.”
Although the home was lost, the chief thanked the collaborative work of the officers and firefighters to keep it contained.
