WRIGHT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — Authorities say one person is dead after an early-morning apartment fire in Ottawa County Monday.
The fire was reported around 4:30 a.m. at the State Street Apartments in 14000 block of State Street in the unincorporated community of Marne.
Firefighters were able to contain the blaze to one apartment in the building.
Crews on scene told 24 Hour News 8 that one person was killed. Ottawa County Sheriff’s Capt. Mark Bennett said the 51-year-old victim was on an oxygen machine.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.