At least two apartments were damaged in a fire Thursday morning on Glenbrook Road near Northridge Mall in Milwaukee.
The call came in just after 10:00 a.m. at the Ridgewood Apartment complex.
First responders sounded a second alarm due to the size of the fire.
"You could see fire coming out of the glass," recalled resident Nathan Schneiderman. "I don't know what to expect when I get home... It's going to be rougher for those above me. Their apartments are now gutted."
Watch: At least two apartments damaged in fire on Glenbrook Road near Northridge Mall
The fire chief told me it appeared to have started in a second-story unit and that the flames damaged the apartment directly above it.
Schneider has only lived at Ridgewood for two weeks.
"I just moved in, just got settled. I just put things on the wall last night."
He had plans to cook at home with his two dogs — a mellow Thanksgiving Day. That was until the alarms began.
"I got my dogs ready and I go out the door," Schneiderman explained. "People with fire extinguishers ran upstairs to try to extinguish it, but by then I think it had become too big."
MFD told TMJ4 that the flames were contained to the two units.
But folks down the hall said they needed to exit the building too.
"We couldn't breathe. It was really hard and not clear visibility," said Resident Vignesh Malathi Govindarajan. "The smoke is all over the second floor. We live on the other side of the apartment, but the smoke is everywhere."
Firefighters are still working to determine a cause, but say no one was injured other than a firefighter who cut his hand.
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