Goodland Township Fire Department

08/23/2026

06/05/2026

Press Release regarding the fire at 7402 Shaw Rd

At 16:50 Lapeer Central Dispatch received a call from Pallets N More in Goodland Township saying that they had a fire in one of the buildings. Everyone was able to vacate the premises.

Goodland Township and Imlay City fire departments were dispatched for the structure fire. Within one minute, Goodland Twp. Fire Chief Brian Kinzer arrived on scene. At that time, one of the several buildings on the four-acre property was fully involved.

A request for Brown City (Sanilac County), Arcadia Twp., Attica Twp and North Branch Fire Departments was made. Soon afterward a request for the Southeastern Lapeer County Manpower Strike Force was made—Lapeer City, Elba Twp., Hadley Twp., Metamora Twp. Fire Departments.

A request for out-of-county tankers (tenders) was also made. The following fire departments responded:

Huron County:
Harbor Beach, Sigel Twp., Bad Axe, Port Austin and Windsor Twp.

Sanilac County:
Croswell, Delaware Twp., Minden City, Marlette, Moore Twp., Speaker Twp., Elk Twp. and Applegate

St. Clair County:
Berlin Twp. and Mussey Twp.

Lapeer County:
Deerfield Twp., Almont Twp. and Dryden Twp. for additional manpower later in the event.

A total of 27 fire departments responded along with multiple Lapeer County EMS units, Michigan State Police, Parsh Oil & Propane, and DTE.

The four-acre site had several buildings, machinery, semi-trailers, and thousands of wooden pallets. With the tremendous fuel load (wood), initial firefighting tactics were a challenge due to extreme heat. The entire site was fully engulfed in fire within 15 minutes of the initial call.

There is no estimate of the loss at this posting.

There were no injuries during the entire event.

All units cleared the scene at 0300 the following day

Chief Brian Kinzer
Goodland Township Fire Department

06/02/2026

We had a structure fire this afternoon on Lyons Rd. Please keep the family in your thoughts as they deal with this tragedy in their lives.

I want to say a huge Thank you to our mutual aid partners that responded. We could NOT have done this without you. Imlay City Fire Department, Arcadia Township Fire Department, Attica Township Fire Department and Brown City Fire Department. Also Lapeer County EMS for standing by checking on all involved

Also our crew worked extremely hard to battle the fire in some tough conditions. It’s hard to put into words how proud I am of this team. They all worked together with our neighboring departments to extinguish the fire and then went back and cleaned up equipment not only to leave and follow up with their lives. I hope this community appreciates them as much as I do.

Chief Kinzer

04/22/2026

Last night we had a round table discussion regarding the Emergency Action Plan for the Dam off of Caldwell Rd.
We had Goodland and Imlay City Fire, Drain Commission, Emergency Operation Center, Sheriff’s Dept, LCEMS, MSP, Road Commission and EGLE.
We had a great discussion on how a situation would be handled in the event of an Emergency at the Dam. (For the record we had this scheduled before the historic flooding in northern Michigan)

It was great to work with that many people with different perspectives but with one common goal of the safety of our residents.

Thank you to all that participated

04/22/2026

Should be a great time again this year for our annual golf outing. Lapeer County Firemen's Association Golf Outing 2026. Saturday June 6th -8am shotgun start- Lapeer Country Club. Hole sponsorships available for $50. Golf is $85 per person.