STURTEVANT — A woman was injured, and many residents are displaced after a Wednesday night apartment fire in Sturtevant.
According to the South Shore Fire Department Assistant Chief Tony Soler, the fire started around 10:47 p.m. Wednesday, and it was burning from the second floor when crews arrived.
Racine County Sheriff's deputies were the first to arrive at the scene. They immediately began evacuating residents. Two deputies attempted to breach the door of the apartment where the fire appeared to have originated; however, heavy smoke and flames forced them to leave.
Watch: One person injured, many displaced following apartment fire in Sturtevant
Firefighters at the scene made an initial attack but had to retreat before regrouping and going back in.
About an hour into the response, firefighters found a 64-year-old woman in an apartment. She was transported to a nearby hospital. She remains in critical condition in the hospital's burn center.
The two deputies forced out of the building were taken to a nearby hospital to be evaluated for smoke inhalation.
Vehicle theft, shots fired in separate incident near the scene of the fire
At around 3:11 a.m., while emergency personnel were still at the scene, a deputy reported hearing multiple gunshots coming from the northwest of the fire scene. At the same time, the Racine County Communications Center received a report of a stolen vehicle in the general area.
Deputies quickly located the vehicle on STH 20, just east of Renaissance Boulevard. The driver, an 18-year-old man from Milwaukee, was taken into custody. He was found to have sustained a non-life-threatening gunshot wound and was transported by ambulance to Froedtert Hospital for treatment.
Both incidents remain under active investigation by the Racine County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Bureau.
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