A late-night fire at Columbia Manor in South Milwaukee sent dozens of residents scrambling from their apartments and left the building in the dark with no power, no heat and no working fire alarms. South Milwaukee Fire Department crews arrived around 9:30 p.m. Monday to find heavy smoke and flames pouring from a first-floor unit. No one was injured, but firefighters did pull out a cat and a turtle. The cat was given oxygen on scene and returned to its owner.
Where the blaze struck
The fire broke out in one of several connected buildings that make up the Columbia Manor complex near South Chicago Avenue and Columbia Avenue in South Milwaukee. The property known as Columbia Manor is listed at 3411 S. Chicago Ave, according to…..