Milwaukee firefighters battled a large fire at a U-Haul storage facility that broke out Wednesday evening, with cold and freezing temperatures adding to the challenges crews faced.
The Milwaukee Fire Department received reports of smoke in the area just after 6:30 p.m. When crews arrived, they found smoke and fire inside the storage facility.
“Initial companies arrived on scene, finding smoke and fire conditions in the U-Haul storage facility,” said Assistant Chief Operations Schuyler Belott. “Our companies made an interior attack to try to find and locate the fire and do some quick primary searches of the building to ensure we didn’t have anybody inside.”…