5th person dies from blaze that forced residents to jump from Milwaukee apartment building windows

MILWAUKEE – A 5th idiosyncratic has died pursuing an aggravated occurrence that engulfed a four-story flat gathering successful Milwaukee connected Mother's Day.

Details astir the unfortunate were not instantly released Monday by the Milwaukee Fire Department. Further details astir the blaze besides were not released.

The occurrence was reported astir 8 a.m. Sunday astatine the 85-unit building. Officials said immoderate residents were forced to leap to flight the flames and smoke.

Ladder trucks were utilized to rescue different residents from windows portion immoderate firefighters wrong the burning gathering crawled connected hands and knees to get radical out, Fire Chief Aaron Lipski said Sunday. In all, astir 30 radical were rescued.

Four radical died Sunday. The 5th fatality was among 4 others who were critically injured. Several different residents were treated for lesser injuries.

An estimated 200 radical were displaced by the occurrence which near the gathering uninhabitable. The gathering was built successful 1968 and did not person a sprinkler system, predating a instrumentality that would person required one, Lipski said.

Lipski said the occurrence began successful a communal country and dispersed to aggregate floors. Authorities person not said however the occurrence mightiness person started.

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