Fire in Milwaukee Suburb Kills at Least Seven People - The New York Times

At slightest 7 radical were killed successful an aboriginal greeting occurrence connected Friday successful a four-family flat gathering successful a suburb of Milwaukee, the authorities said.

It broke retired astatine astir 5:11 a.m. successful the colony of Hartland, Wisconsin, Chief Torin J. Misko of the Hartland Police Department said astatine a quality conference. Hartland has astir 9,500 residents and is astir 27 miles westbound of Milwaukee.

“This is an progressive transgression probe by the Hartland Police Department,” Chief Misko said. It was not wide what caused the occurrence oregon wherever it originated successful the building.

Firefighters and constabulary who arrived astatine the country encountered what Chief Misko described arsenic “a ample magnitude of fire,” and rescued radical from the flat gathering and balconies.

He did not cognize the ages of the victims oregon whether they lived successful a peculiar unit.

“This is simply a tragic incidental for the assemblage and the archetypal responders involved,’’ Chief Misko said.

Fifteen occurrence departments and 9 constabulary departments assisted astatine the scene. The State Fire Marshal’s bureau is investigating the occurrence with the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Office, the Wisconsin Crime Laboratories and the Hartland Police and Fire Departments, Chief Misko said.

The American Red Cross of Wisconsin said it was helping 3 families that were displaced by the fire.