Detroit-Area Senior Housing Complex Burns

At least one person is dead after fire rips through a senior apartment complex. A number of senior citizens, many in wheelchairs, were rushed to the hospital after fire and heavy smoke made its way through the building on Champagne and Allen roads in Allen Park. “They were hanging out the windows because there was no oxygen in the apartment to breath, they got out though,” said one firefighter. For Allen Park Fire Chief Douglas LaFond the fire hit close to home … his own mother had to escape the fire by ambling down a ladder.