The Associated Press
ISHPEMING TOWNSHIP, Mich. — A fire at a nursing home in far-northern Michigan killed two people early Monday and sent at least 60 to hospitals, officials said.
The blaze was reported just after midnight at the 122-bed Mather Nursing Center in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, about 360 miles (580 kilometers) north of Detroit.
Bell Memorial Hospital spokesman Rich Rossway said two of the 25 people taken there had died. Marquette General Hospital received 37 people from the nursing home, but conditions were not being released, said spokeswoman Mary Tippett.
State police said there was no immediate word on what caused the fire, which was concentrated in two rooms at the home.
“They’re still just trying to take care of the residents,” said State Police Sgt. Brian Graustein.
A woman who answered the phone at the nursing home but declined to give her name said nobody was available to give details on the injuries.