Overview
- Anthone Medina helped save an infant by lowering the child from a burning apartment near 77th Street and Green Tree Road as smoke poured from the building.
- Firefighters arrived quickly and used ladders to evacuate residents, and the structure has since been deemed uninhabitable and boarded.
- Officials confirmed the building did not have a sprinkler system, a known risk factor in older multiunit housing across the city.
- Fire Chief Aaron Lipski is working with city departments on a database to flag properties without sprinklers so dispatchers can send additional crews to higher‑risk addresses.
- Milwaukee Professional Firefighters Local 215 backs the plan, while property owner Berrada has not responded to questions about rehousing tenants or the absence of sprinklers.