The Brief
- A month after a fire damaged a U-Haul storage facility, tenants say they still cannot access their units.
- City records show the building’s owner wants to tear it down.
- U-Haul says customers have not been allowed in due to debris and safety concerns but will be contacted once access is possible.
MILWAUKEE – A month after a fire heavily damaged a U-Haul storage facility on Milwaukee’s south side, one tenant says she still hasn’t been able to access what remains of her family’s belongings — and is asking for more transparency as demolition plans move forward.
What we know:
The fire destroyed much of the facility near Orchard and 1st Street. Kathryn Behling says one of the units inside contained decades of baseball memorabilia collected by her father, Dan Siettmann.
“He was an avid baseball memorabilia collector. He’s been collecting since he was a kid,” she said. “It’s like my dad’s legacy — he enjoyed it so much even his funeral was, like, baseball-themed.”…