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

A 6-year-old girl has died, and a woman was seriously hurt following a house fire on Sunday morning on Detroit's west side.

DETROIT – Three people are dead after a family home caught fire on Detroit’s west side early Monday morning. The Detroit Fire Department was called to the home in the 19000 block of Wildemere Avenue at about 6 a.m., Dec. 15. They arrived to the house in less than five minutes.

An early-morning tragedy on Detroit's west side left three people dead and two others in the hospital after a fire broke out at a home.

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

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 family of 17 is now looking for any help they can get after a fire ripped through their home in Detroit early Tuesday morning. It was one of a rash of blazes that have hit the city as the cold weeks have dragged on in Southeast Michigan.

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.