By Taylor Wizner, Daily News Editor
Published April 9, 2013
In tune with Saturday's post-game activities, Ann Arbor firefighters responded to several fires after Michigan's loss to Louisville Monday night.
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There were at least seven fires, according to Daily and law enforcement reports. Two of the fires occurred at University parking lots. Six of the fires involved objects burning, and five involved couches, while one involved a mattress.
According to reports, there were two fires located on White Street, as well as one on Church Street, one near Michigan Street and East University Avenue, one on Greenwood Avenue and two on University property — one at a parking lot on Hoover and Brown Streets and one at a School of Nursing parking lot.
At the first White Street fire, off McKinley Street, a couch was engulfed in flames as more than twenty students looked on. One person repeatedly tried to throw a large trash can in the fire, but it was removed twice by onlookers. Police arrived first on scene to manage the crowd. Shortly after, two fire trucks arrived at the scene and quickly put out the fire. One student was taken away from the scene in handcuffs.
Later on in the evening, there was a mattress fire at White Street at a location near the previous fire. Police officers on scene said both fires happened in front of the same house.
Police investigated the house nearest the burning mattress and found what they described as a Molotov Cocktail — a beer bottle filled with a liquid and cloth, according to an officer on scene. Firefighters and police officers entered the house and an inebriated man was taken away by an ambulance. It is unclear if the man was arrested.
UMPD spokesperson Diane Brown said the small fire at the School of Nursing parking lot did not burn for long and was quickly extinguished by firefighters.
The last fire observed by the Daily — in the University parking lot on Hoover and Brown Streets — was a couch fire. Officers on scene could not confirm when or how it started.
AAPD Lt. Renee Bush could not be reached for sufficient comment on any fires.





















