Fire Destroys Van Buren County Home

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No one is hurt, but a home in Van Buren County’s Arlington Township is destroyed following a fire on Friday. South Haven Area Emergency Services says firefighters from multiple departments responded to the blaze on County Road 376 near 56th Street around 7:40 p.m. The Bangor Community Fire Department was the first dispatched to the scene on a report of smoke, and when firefighters arrived, they found the home already fully engulfed in flames. Mutual aid was provided at the scene by fire departments from Lawrence, Hartford, Paw Paw, Columbia, Keeler, Watervliet, and South Haven. The residents were not at home at the time, and the cause of the fire remains under investigation.