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Firefighters return to neighborhood of fatal fire

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After a fire raged through an apartment building near Mitchell and South 29th streets Thursday, killing one person, the Milwaukee Fire Department is taking preventative action for others.Saturday morning, crews went back to that neighborhood, going door-to-door giving out fire alarms for free.”A smoke detector is our primary warning device, and ideally, a smoke detector is going to warn you when that fire is still in its growing phases,” Milwaukee Fire Department Assistant Chief Joshua Parish said.”Even fighting fires in their very small stages, you know? A small kitchen fire that’s just catching a cabinet is a perfect opportunity for us to get in there, extinguish that. It really reduces the chance of loss of life,” Parish said.While there were working smoke alarms in the apartment building, officials are turning their attention to the neighborhood because there is a greater risk of fires further in the winter. “A lot of incidents of mishaps with heating and improper heating,” Parish said. “You have that duality of people being at home, people doing activities at home that they would otherwise do outside of the home.”Fire crews said fire danger increases in the winter, so they also have to watch out for their own safety. “The same slipping hazards that individuals in the community face, we face as well, and unfortunately the firefighting equipment and the boots don’t make slipping and falling any less likely,” Parish said. The apartment fire the Milwaukee Fire Department responded to this week on that street did have working smoking detectors.The cause of the fire is still under investigation.

MILWAUKEE —

After a fire raged through an apartment building near Mitchell and South 29th streets Thursday, killing one person, the Milwaukee Fire Department is taking preventative action for others.

Saturday morning, crews went back to that neighborhood, going door-to-door giving out fire alarms for free.

“A smoke detector is our primary warning device, and ideally, a smoke detector is going to warn you when that fire is still in its growing phases,” Milwaukee Fire Department Assistant Chief Joshua Parish said.

“Even fighting fires in their very small stages, you know? A small kitchen fire that’s just catching a cabinet is a perfect opportunity for us to get in there, extinguish that. It really reduces the chance of loss of life,” Parish said.

While there were working smoke alarms in the apartment building, officials are turning their attention to the neighborhood because there is a greater risk of fires further in the winter.

“A lot of incidents of mishaps with heating and improper heating,” Parish said. “You have that duality of people being at home, people doing activities at home that they would otherwise do outside of the home.”

Fire crews said fire danger increases in the winter, so they also have to watch out for their own safety.

“The same slipping hazards that individuals in the community face, we face as well, and unfortunately the firefighting equipment and the boots don’t make slipping and falling any less likely,” Parish said.

The apartment fire the Milwaukee Fire Department responded to this week on that street did have working smoking detectors.

The cause of the fire is still under investigation.