A 72-year-old man who just returned home from the hospital after battling COVID-19 died in a fire at the Burnham Hill Apartments near 29th and Mitchell in Milwaukee early Thursday, Jan. 28. More than 80 were displaced.
FOX6 News spoke with the devastated family of Nathaniel Beal, found dead in a third-floor unit where the fire started. "We had a lot of time with our dad," said Yolanda Harris. "He was a good man. Everybody has their flaws, but he still was a good man. That was our daddy."
"He gave a lot. He worked hard," said Nathaniel Anderson.
Crews were called to the apartment complex shortly after midnight.
"As of now, we really don’t know what happened. All we know is he’s gone," said Harris.
The loss is a blow to Beal's family, who said he'd just recovered from COVID-19.