More than a dozen people, their pets and a wedding dress were all rescued from an apartment complex building fire on Friday. A fire department in Wisconsin was called around 5:15 a.m. Friday morning. The single apartment building on fire in the large apartment complex property housed eight units and 15 people inside. No injuries were reported. Chief Peter Jaskulski of the Hales Corners Fire Department in Wisconsin said one of his off-duty firefighters lives in the apartment building next to the one that caught fire. Jaskulski said the firefighter's dog woke him up, and when he let the dog out, he smelled smoke and discovered the fire. Jaskulski said the firefighter banged on all the doors in the building to wake people up. Jaskulski said a woman inside the building, who nearly lost her wedding dress to the flames, pulled the building fire alarm. Jaskulski said police also made sure everyone was out. Fire crews contained the fire, but by the time it was out, the building and all the homes inside it were a total loss. Multiple fire departments were called to help with the blaze. After the fire was out, Milwaukee fire crews performed a sweep of the building and discovered a wedding dress in one of the units. They pulled it out. "When you see something, and you see something of that much value, you make a decision and they made the right decision to pull that out," Jaskulski said. The Milwaukee fire crew gave the dress to a neighbor, who reunited the dress with its bride. The moment was caught on camera. Jaskulski said he talked at length with the woman who owned the wedding dress. "This was a young couple that was going to get married in April and because of COVID-19 had postponed it. They didn't have a big ceremony, but they got married in a smaller ceremony and they hadn't decided what to do yet," Jaskulski said. "Later on, I talked to her. She was holding the dress, she was with her husband, it was actually a really beautiful dress," Jaskulski said. "I said, 'You gotta get it dry cleaned.' She had tears in her eyes, she said, 'Somebody has offered to take care of that for me already.'"Sister station WISN 12 News crews followed up with the apartment complex later on and found the business office filled with donations from the community. Clothes, food, stuffed animals and more were all donated to help the families displaced by the early morning fire. The apartment complex manager said they did not ask for donations, people just started bringing them in. Jaskulski said the fire started outside on the second floor. He said it was not caused by any candles or grills, did not appear to be suspicious and did not appear to be caused by neglect.He said the official cause of the fire is still under investigation, but he believes it likely had something to do with utilities located outside on the second floor.
More than a dozen people, their pets and a wedding dress were all rescued from an apartment complex building fire on Friday.
A fire department in Wisconsin was called around 5:15 a.m. Friday morning.
The single apartment building on fire in the large apartment complex property housed eight units and 15 people inside.
No injuries were reported.
Chief Peter Jaskulski of the Hales Corners Fire Department in Wisconsin said one of his off-duty firefighters lives in the apartment building next to the one that caught fire. Jaskulski said the firefighter's dog woke him up, and when he let the dog out, he smelled smoke and discovered the fire. Jaskulski said the firefighter banged on all the doors in the building to wake people up.
Jaskulski said a woman inside the building, who nearly lost her wedding dress to the flames, pulled the building fire alarm.
Jaskulski said police also made sure everyone was out.
Fire crews contained the fire, but by the time it was out, the building and all the homes inside it were a total loss.
Multiple fire departments were called to help with the blaze.
After the fire was out, Milwaukee fire crews performed a sweep of the building and discovered a wedding dress in one of the units. They pulled it out.
"When you see something, and you see something of that much value, you make a decision and they made the right decision to pull that out," Jaskulski said.
The Milwaukee fire crew gave the dress to a neighbor, who reunited the dress with its bride. The moment was caught on camera.
Jaskulski said he talked at length with the woman who owned the wedding dress.
"This was a young couple that was going to get married in April and because of COVID-19 had postponed it. They didn't have a big ceremony, but they got married in a smaller ceremony and they hadn't decided what to do yet," Jaskulski said.
"Later on, I talked to her. She was holding the dress, she was with her husband, it was actually a really beautiful dress," Jaskulski said. "I said, 'You gotta get it dry cleaned.' She had tears in her eyes, she said, 'Somebody has offered to take care of that for me already.'"
Sister station WISN 12 News crews followed up with the apartment complex later on and found the business office filled with donations from the community.
Clothes, food, stuffed animals and more were all donated to help the families displaced by the early morning fire.
The apartment complex manager said they did not ask for donations, people just started bringing them in.
Jaskulski said the fire started outside on the second floor. He said it was not caused by any candles or grills, did not appear to be suspicious and did not appear to be caused by neglect.
He said the official cause of the fire is still under investigation, but he believes it likely had something to do with utilities located outside on the second floor.
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