GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Families who have experienced a house fire grapple with a range of emotions like grief and stress, depending on the extent of the loss. When I was a child, one of my older brothers fell a sleep in front of the television while cooking something late one night.

Winstrom said the 46-year-old mother removed seven smoke detectors from the house and poured lighter fluid before setting the fire. She was outside when police arrived. Screams from inside the house “will live on in our heads for the rest of our lives,” Fire Chief Brad Brown said Monday.

A 12-year-old child who has been in critical condition since a Saturday morning fire at a Grand Rapids home died Monday evening at a nearby hospital. The Grand Rapids Press/MLive is not naming the child at this time as her mother is facing criminal charges as a result of the fire and the mother is yet to be arraigned.

A Grand Rapids mother faces arson charges after investigators say she set fire to her home with her children inside, sending one of her daughters to the hospital, where she later died.

A western Michigan woman is accused of setting a house fire that killed her 12-year-old daughter who was trapped in a bedroom

Shamiya Stewart died two days after a fire her mother allegedly admitted to setting off, per police A Michigan woman is in custody after police allege she set her house on fire with her three children inside,