US Edition4 dead, hundreds displaced by Milwaukee apartment building fire
- Four people died and hundreds were displaced after a fire broke out at a multistory apartment building in Milwaukee's Concordia neighborhood on Sunday morning.
- The building did not have a working sprinkler system but was not required to as it was built before 1974, according to local reports.
- The Milwaukee Fire Chief said the fire could have been prevented if sprinklers were mandatory for older buildings, stating "I have four fatalities here today.
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"It is an act that has upset the lives of all the people who lived in this building": a man in front of the Assises for voluntary fire
On Monday 12 May, a man was tried in front of the assize court of the Haute-Vienne in Limoges for arson. He was accused of having set fire to a building, Place Fontaine des Barres, in the centre of Limoges, in 2018. Some 30 people had been evacuated.
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Independent EspañolNeighbors jumped through the windows in a fire in Milwaukee that left 4 dead
Neighbors jumped from the windows of a four-story apartment building in Milwaukee during a Mother's Day fire that killed four people, injured four people seriously and became so intense that the flames overcame the first firefighters to arrive, authorities said.
Mother’s Day Apartment Building Fire Kills 4 and Critically Injures 4 Others in Milwaukee
MILWAUKEE—A Milwaukee apartment building fire that began in a common area and spread to multiple floors Sunday killed four people and critically injured four others. Several more were treated for lesser injuries in the fire that began sometime before 8 a.m. on Mother’s Day. The blaze rendered the 85-unit building uninhabitable, displacing an estimated 200 people, Milwaukee Fire Chief Aaron Lipski said at a news conference. Calls came in that peo…
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