MSP: Prior to fire, man asked church for gasoline to 'burn his house down'

MSP: Prior to fire, man asked church for gasoline to 'burn his house down'

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Prior to a house fire in a northern Michigan village Tuesday, a man had stopped by a church and asked for a can of gasoline, police say. Just before 11 a.m. Tuesday, the man had asked a Mesick church for a can of gasoline, saying "he wanted to burn his house down that he had been working on," Michigan State Police said in a Wednesday release posted to social media. Mesick is a Wexford County village located about 30 …