NILES, Mich. (WSBT) \u2014 Mayor Nick Shelton confirmed a 68-year-old woman has died in the fire, sharing his condolences.<\/p>\n
Crews were called before 3 p.m. for a fire at the 200 block of North 7th Street in Niles.<\/p>\n
Fire officials told WSBT 22 they are working now to determine whether this is a deadly house fire.<\/p>\n
A fire department spokesman told us that an Amazon driver noticed an outdoor couch burning on the porch.<\/p>\n
Video of Niles’ fire. (Skarlett Ritlaw Video)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Police from several area departments, including Michigan State Police, are also on scene and have taped off the area.<\/p>\n
According to the fire department, a total of four people were inside, but a family member is telling firefighters one person did not make it out.<\/p>\n
At this point, the fire is contained, but neither fire officials nor police are confirming if someone is dead inside.<\/p>\n
Emergency crews have moved our photographer a little farther from the scene, but he tells us they were blocking off the area with crime tape.<\/p>\n
We are working to get more information and will continue to follow this breaking story in Niles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NILES, Mich. (WSBT) \u2014 Mayor Nick Shelton confirmed a 68-year-old woman has died in the fire, sharing his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-817121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}