"I am devastated:" Red Cross assists 7 people following 2-alarm house fire near 10th & Ring
MILWAUKEE -- Milwaukee police are trying to figure out how to a fire started on the city's north side. At least one family is homeless -- and can't believe this has happened to them twice in three years.
"I can never get them back, you know? Special moments when they were growing up," said Sherri Taylor.
Taylor has been through this before -- in 2013 at a different home. She said she knows she will never be able to replace the photographs of her three kids that burned, along with everything else she had, in an overnight fire at 10th and Ring.
Sherri Taylor
"I don't have anything but the clothes on by back," said Taylor.
The fire started around midnight in the home where Taylor rented a unit. It quickly spread to the homes on either side.
"Can't take away memories -- but it hurts to see it gone," said Nathaniel Harrison.
The white house was Harrison's boyhood home. His sister and her daughter woke up to the flames.
"She was sad because it is my mom's house and I told her 'it is OK, as long as she is OK,'" said Harrison.
The Red Cross is assisting seven people from three families. They were not hurt. One firefighter had to be hospitalized for minor injuries to his hand.
Taylor is trying to cope with starting over again.
"I am devastated -- tired of crying, tired of stuff happening to me," said Taylor.
Milwaukee police say the cause of this fire is still under investigation. MFD's battalion chief said it can be hard to pinpoint with a fire of this magnitude and such extensive damage.
We're told the Milwaukee firefighter who was injured was home from the hospital Wednesday -- and is OK.