MILWAUKEE (AP) — Officials say one person has died and another has been injured in an apartment building fire on Milwaukee’s near south side early Thursday.
Battalion Chief Travis Jones tells WTMJ-TV that 30 to 40 tenants have been displaced by the fire on the third floor of the building.
Some residents stayed warm in a city bus while firefighters worked the scene just after midnight in single digit temperatures.
No firefighters were injured.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
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