All that food. Everything that was important was in that house, except us, thank God. The two-story home Lee rented was one of three destroyed in the early evening blaze in the 1700 block of Idaho, on the border of Highland Park and Detroit. One firefighter suffered minor burns. The fire left Lee's family and another family homeless.
Investigators say the fire probably started in an adjacent, unoccupied house.
They had not determined the cause. Amos Sam, who lives nearby and was visiting his aunt on the same block, saw white smoke billowing from the windows of the middle home. As he called 911, the smoke began to turn black. He had been staying with his mother since her stroke, and was just getting home from work. His mother has lived in the house since 1965, he said.