Fire officials say “challenging circumstances within the house," including items that were obstacles for firefighters, made it difficult to get to the trapped victims.

Two people are dead, and three people have been transported to the hospital after a fire early Monday morning at a home on Detroit's west side, according to a Detroit Fire Department spokesperson.

City of Detroit maintenance workers could only board up the windows in the charred and frozen aftermath of a deadly fire that tore through a home on 12000 block of Rutherford – near Greenfield and I-96 – on Detroit’s west side early Sunday morning.

A child has died, and a woman was seriously hurt following a house fire on Sunday morning on Detroit's west side.

Detroit firefighters were busy early Tuesday as they worked to extinguish fires that burned at least seven homes.

Detroit fire officials are investigating multiple house fires that broke out Tuesday morning, including a blaze that destroyed two vacant homes and damaged one family’s home on Dwyer Street.

A 7-year-old boy died in a weekend house fire on Detroit's west side, officials said. Detroit firefighters were called shortly before 6 a.m. Sunday to the 12000 block of Rutherford Street near Plymouth and Greenfield roads for a fire in a home. Calls reported people were trapped inside the residence, according to authorities.

Three people are dead, including a teen girl, and two others are injured following the second deadly house fire in two days in Detroit.

A 6-year-old girl died in a house fire on Detroit's west side Sunday morning, while a woman and 4-year-old boy were hospitalized with injuries.

Multiple injuries were reported in the aftermath of a house fire early Monday along Wildemere Street in Detroit.