Tenants at a Milwaukee U-Haul storage facility are facing significant losses and frustration over delayed notifications following a fire on Monday. The incident marks the third major fire at the building in a decade, prompting safety concerns from the city’s fire chief.
Dozens of boxes and racks were covered in soot, accompanied by the overwhelming smell of lingering smoke. For Michelle Eigenberger and Elizabeth Kiesling, co-owners of the Brady Street vintage store Bandit MKE, it is a feeling of deja vu. They lost items in a January fire at the facility and have now lost even more.
“My heart rate instantly, I could feel it like pounding through my chest, and it was like, are you kidding me? Is this a dream? This can’t be real, like not again,” Eigenberger said.
“Disbelief, beyond,” Kiesling said…