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4 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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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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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.

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CBS58 broke the news in Milwaukee, United States on Sunday, May 11, 2025.
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