Small burn marks and soot still cover Dierre Hurz’s hands from a fire that erupted at his home early Thursday morning near Grant Boulevard and North Avenue in Milwaukee.
The flames quickly spread on the second floor around 2:30 a.m., where neighbors like Roy Evans first spotted the blaze.
“The smoke and the flames were in the upper… upper part,” Evans said.
Hurz said he didn’t wait when he realized what was happening.
“Everybody was asleep. I was the only one up — me and my brother,” Hurz said.
“I pulled my cousin out the back window… my other little cousins jumped off the top roof — we caught them… even our dog,” Hurz said…