Fire · Lyon Twp

Apartment smoke call traced to new furnace installation issue

3104A Dorchester, Lyon Twp · Oct 31, 2026, 8:33 PM

Lyon Township fire crews were sent at about 8:33 PM to a reported residential fire at an apartment building on Dorchester, near New Hudson Drive. A resident reported light smoke and sounding fire alarms after turning on the heat for the first time. Crews found a three-story multifamily building with light smoke in one apartment and no active fire, and they checked the attic and the floors below. Crews reported the problem was an installation mistake with a new furnace, said there was no hazard, and let the apartment air out.

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