Van Buren Township fire victim identified

The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s office has identified the man who died in the May 24 fire at Bellridge Apartments in Van Buren Township as Jamir Davis, 20.
He was positively identified by a family member. According to the medical examiner’s office, which performed an autopsy on May 25, Davis died from smoke and soot inhalation.
Cause of death has been ruled accidental.
Davis reportedly was a student at Michigan Aeronautics School, studying to be an airplane mechanic, and lived on the western side of the state.
At 3:55 a.m. May 24, residents noticed smoke gathering in the hallways and called 911.
The VBT Public Safety Department was dispatched to the 41000 block of Bellridge Drive (near Independence and Haggerty roads, north of I-94) for an activated smoke alarm, according to a news release from Fire Chief Dan Besson.
When fire fighters arrived, a ground-floor apartment was well-involved with fire and the windows were beginning to break out. Firefighters entered the apartment to put out the fire and discovered Davis, who was lying in bed, deceased.
A family in another apartment was displaced by the fire. There are about 12 apartments in the three-story building. Preliminary fire loss is estimated at $75,000.
Chief Besson said Monday he has yet to get a report on the cause of the fire, but he believed it to have started in a trash container.