A camper being stored for the winter caught fire and quickly burned off Groesbeck Street west of 152nd Avenue in Grand Haven Township on Saturday evening, Nov. 16.
Phil Thompson Sr. was in a nearby garage, working on the brakes on his van and watching a football game when he poked his head outside and saw smoke billowing out of the camper. That was around 8 p.m., he said.
Thompson Sr. shut the door and rushed back into the garage, where he grabbed two large fire extinguishers.
Grand Haven Township firefighters responded and put out the fire, but the trailer was completely destroyed.
"It was a defensive fire when we got there," meaning firefighters' first priority was to keep the fire from spreading, said to Captain Shawn Schrader.
Schrader confirmed that there were no injuries resulting from the fire.