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Jeffrey Grant, left, and Hope Snyder, right

Fountain, Michigan · 17 min read The Death Of Jeffrey Grant, The Michigan Man Killed In A House Fire Set By A Woman Who Then Tried To Fly To Alaska Jeffrey Grant, 57, was upstairs in his rented house near Fountain, Michigan, when a fire was lit in a closet under the stairs on November 22, 2021. The woman who lit it had spent the night messaging friends about what to do with him.