'I was running for my life': fire guts multiple units in Milwaukee building

Multiple homes were reduced to rubble in an apartment building fire Thursday night near 84th and Mill.

"I was running for my life, my children were running for their lives, my grandchildren were running for their lives," recalled resident, Cherise Parker.

Parker told TMJ4 she was woken up to the sound of neighbors banging on her window yelling 'fire.'

"So we just got what we can, shoes, keys, purse— just running out the door," Parker said.

She told TMJ4 that once she ran to the back of her building, she saw the flames take over multiple units.

"[The fire] just moved, it just moved, it stopped at the front of this unit... and it just burned. It was devastating because there were people coming home from the fourth and seeing their unit on fire."

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