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EATON RAPIDS, Mich. — Thomas Stewart II and his fiance Kayla Grimm are trying to pick up the pieces after their house burned down on New Year’s Day.
“Three minutes later and you would have found three bodies in that house,” Stewart said. The couple says they were asleep early Thursday morning with their two-month old daughter in the room. They say the fire in their chimney left running from the night before had gotten out of control.
“I couldn’t see anything, the first thing that ran through my body was fear,” Grimm said. “You never expect to wake up and your house in covered in smoke.” With the fireplace next to their bedroom the couple says their only way out was through a window. “I came straight to the station with my wife and baby, got my gear on and took off,” Stewart said. “Went back to the house, tired to save the neighbor’s house and save my house.”
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