LAPEER, Mich. (WNEM) – As the Palisades fires continue to rage a week after it started, fire officials want to bring awareness to the potential of wildfires happening in mid-Michigan.
“Forest fires are common in Michigan, but nothing to the scale of California,” City of Lapeer Fire Chief Mike Vogt said.
He said the area called the Wildland-Urban Interface, also known as WUI, is a unique aspect of what caused the California fire to be so destructive…