A woman has been charged after investigators determined a cigarette flicked inside a vacant Milwaukee building caused a massive fire that led to the structure’s demolition.
Milwaukee Fire Investigation Unit Director Timothy Heling said the woman arrested was known for entering vacant buildings and admitted to flicking a cigarette inside the building Wednesday. Heling said the woman and three other people believed they had extinguished the fire before leaving.
Watch: How one cigarette flicked into a vacant building near 32nd and Hampton on Wednesday was the catalyst for a five-alarm fire.
Milwaukee 5-alarm fire caused by cigarette flicked inside vacant building on city’s north side, MFD says
Cameras from a building across the street captured the four people leaving…