MILWAUKEE—A Milwaukee apartment building fire that began in a common area and spread to multiple floors Sunday killed four people and critically injured four others.
Several more were treated for lesser injuries in the fire that began sometime before 8 a.m. on Mother’s Day.
The blaze rendered the 85-unit building uninhabitable, displacing an estimated 200 people, Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski said at a news conference.
Calls came in that people were trapped and jumping from the four-story building’s second floor to escape. The first firefighters to arrive were “far, far outmatched” by intense flames, Lipski said.
Platform fire trucks rescued people from windows while other firefighters went inside, some crawling on hands and knees to get people out, Lipski said….