A fire on Milwaukee's north side left dozens of people without a place to sleep Saturday night, May 21. The Red Cross was able to put up some residents at their downtown office for the night before a shelter was opened Sunday.
The fire happened after the Red Cross spent the weekend installing hundreds of smoke alarms on Milwaukee's south side. "Our teams were contacted that a 30-unit building, approximately 60-plus people, were displaced after a fire," said Justin Kern, Red Cross.
Dozens of residents at the Teutonia Avenue apartment building woke up to a nightmare.
"It’s just been very steady with these apartment fires and these multi-unit fires in the last two years," said Kern.