Woman Trapped After Partial Home Collapse in Parchment as Severe Storms Hit West Michigan
The evening before Fourth of July, a woman in Parchment, Michigan did not see it coming. No warning. No time to move. A tree came down and took the roof with it.
She was still inside.
What followed was not a quick rescue. It was a slow, calculated operation that required first responders to think before they could act, because one wrong move could have made things much worse.
A Holiday Eve Turned Into an Emergency
On July 3, 2026, a round of severe thunderstorms swept through West Michigan with wind gusts reaching up to 80 mph. Kalamazoo County took the worst of it…