Firefighters surround a house from ground to roof to battle a fire on Coldwater Creek Road, east of Coldwater, on Wednesday afternoon. When firefighters arrived, flames were visible from the garage, where a car and motorcycle were destroyed. A small family dog, the only occupant inside the home when the fire broke out, was rescued.

A Coldwater-area home sustained heavy damage Wednesday afternoon when flames destroyed a storage garage and its contents. Owners Dennis and Jane Zahn, 4773 Coldwater Creek Road, spotted smoke and then flames as they returned to . . .