Portage, MI – Two residents were injured Sunday afternoon after a welding accident ignited spilled gasoline inside an attached garage in Portage, Michigan, causing approximately $15,000 in damage and sending one person to the hospital.
According to the Portage Department of Public Safety, firefighters responded around 1 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 1, to the 1900 block of Vickery Road following reports of a fully involved garage fire.
Firefighters from Engine 1211 arrived to find heavy smoke coming from the attached garage and a recycling bin burning in the driveway. Everyone inside the residence had evacuated before emergency crews arrived…