Overview
- Cellphone video shows a family lowering an infant in a car seat with a strap from a second‑story window as smoke filled the building.
- The pre‑dawn fire near North 77th Street and Green Tree Road was heaviest in a first‑floor hallway, blocking exits and trapping residents.
- Milwaukee Fire Department crews rescued eight people in total, and two others suffered leg injuries after jumping from the second floor.
- Investigators from the fire department and Milwaukee police arson squad are working to determine the cause as the building remains boarded and uninhabitable.
- Officials confirmed the older apartment lacked sprinklers, and the fire chief’s proposed database of buildings without sprinklers has support from the firefighters’ union.