Detroit firefighters spent most of Tuesday night battling two fires at the corner of Van Dyke and Lynch on the city's east side - one blaze at a vacant house and the other at vehicle impound lot.
FOX 2 Detroit reported that a firefighter was taken to the hospital in the course trying to put the fire out. He suffered smoke inhalation and heat exhaustion.
The fire started at the vacant house, then jumped next door to the impound lot.
Firefighters were hampered by an 11-foot high electric fence surrounding the lot.
"The fence surrounding the property is a 7,000-volt fence," DFD Duty Chief Percy Allen told FOX 2.
Fire crews used aerials to get water on the cars and did extinguish several.
As for the rest?
"There's no exposures, no individuals (inside) so we are just going to let it burn," Allen said.
By 9 p.m. the fires were out.
A house, RV and about 15 cars inside the private lot burned.
