Other contractors were drigging the man out when rescue crews arrived at the campground, located in Sanilac County. but no ...

While he was familiar with the fire that tore across the state’s Thumb 144 years ago — when it killed 282 people and reduced nearly 1 million Michigan acres to barren land in just two days ...

The Great Michigan Fire, also with an unconfirmed death toll, is believed to have claimed more than 500 lives, according to records from the National Weather Service. A decade later, the Thumb ...

(TNS) — During a family trip to a fish festival in Bay Port years ago, Mike Snyder came across a historical marker planted alongside M-25, almost by accident. “Great Fire of 1881” the marker ...

While It’s been over a century, the “Great Michigan Fire” burned 2.5 million acres in 1871. Making it the third-largest wildfire in U.S. history. Closer to home, 10 years later the Thumb ...

BAY PORT, MI — During a family trip to a fish festival in Bay Port years ago, Mike Snyder came across a historical marker planted alongside M-25, almost by accident. “Great Fire of 1881” the ...