Milwaukee, WI
Milwaukee Teutonia Avenue apartment fire displaces 60+
Milwaukee Teutonia Avenue condo hearth displaces 60+
A fireplace on Milwaukee’s north aspect left dozens of individuals and not using a place to sleep Saturday evening. The Pink Cross was in a position to put up some residents at their downtown workplace for the evening earlier than a shelter was opened Sunday.
MILWAUKEE – A fireplace on Milwaukee’s north aspect left dozens of individuals and not using a place to sleep Saturday evening, Might 21. The Pink Cross was in a position to put up some residents at their downtown workplace for the evening earlier than a shelter was opened Sunday.
The fireplace occurred after the Pink Cross spent the weekend putting in a whole lot of smoke alarms on Milwaukee’s south aspect.
“Our groups had been contacted {that a} 30-unit constructing, roughly 60-plus individuals, had been displaced after a fireplace,” mentioned Justin Kern, Pink Cross.
Dozens of residents on the Teutonia Avenue condo constructing woke as much as a nightmare.
“It’s simply been very regular with these condo fires and these multi-unit fires within the final two years,” mentioned Kern.
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Milwaukee hearth crews responded to the condo hearth simply earlier than 10 p.m. Saturday. At the moment of evening, with brief discover, the Pink Cross stepped in, placing a minimum of 17 individuals up of their downtown workplace.
“That was simply one of the best, best method to get people someplace secure, someplace the place they will have that short-term lodging, ensuring they’ve the necessities taken care of,” mentioned Kern.
Pink Cross officers mentioned it isn’t standard, however flexibility is vital. On Sunday, the group opened up a shelter at Redeemer Lutheran.
“It was somber,” mentioned Kern. “Individuals had been understanding of not figuring out how lengthy they could be displaced from this constructing, however individuals had been having lunch. They had been taking care of their neighbors. Our volunteers are speaking with them.”
The Pink Cross mentioned plenty of the displaced residents have practical and entry wants, and plenty of use a wheelchair.
Whereas the reason for the hearth is below investigation, there was a way of togetherness on the shelter Sunday.
“Individuals do rally round one another,” mentioned Kern. “Individuals do assist one another out when it comes right down to it, when it comes right down to serving to our neighbors by way of the worst.”
Fireplace officers mentioned one individual was taken to the hospital.