About an hour before the sun set on the month of May, fires began sparking in an East Side Saginaw neighborhood. As neighbors began taking notice and alerting each other to their shared predicament, the flames grew immense.
Before all was extinguished, the conflagration had consumed one home, marred another, and ravaged multiple vehicles and commercial buildings.
Shortly after 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 31, firefighters received notice of a detached garage on fire behind 2805 Collingwood Ave., said Saginaw Fire Marshall Derron Suchodolski. When they arrived, there was heavy fire in an adjacent field, which further escalated and spread into two commercial buildings at 2409 Hess Ave.
The flames also spread to the houses at 2800 and 2804 Maplewood Ave., up a large pine tree, and several vehicles along its path, including a camper and a motorhome.