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Recovering in a Kalamazoo hospital

Updated: Saturday, 19 May 2012, 11:54 PM EDT
Published : Saturday, 19 May 2012, 11:54 PM EDT

CASS COUNTY, Mich. (WOOD) - A 71-year-old Dowagiac man, is now listed in good condition at Bronson Hospital in Kalamazoo, after being pinned under neath a tractor, which then caught fire.

Deputies say FredrIck Kirsch was tilling his farm land when the tractor he was operating on an incline, rolled over on top of him, and then caught fire. Kirsch was airlifted to a South Bend hospital, before being transferred to Kalamazoo.