Now at 10 00 tonight. The calm before the snow. The city of milwaukee getting a head start on the first major winter storm of the season. Luckily for us, our first snowfall of the season will arrive on a well tell you about the cities plans. Livl meteorologist where this snowstorm is on the way. I hope this pattern isnt continuing on for the rest of the winter season. We had a first small snow last sunday where we picked up a couple of inches. The cold air is here. It will not be heavy wet snow, it will be powdery snow. Snow starts to push in with a after 6 00 oclock, or 7 00 oclock milwaukee time. And have a snowy sunday. This will continue on for 24 to even 30 hours. It starts at 6 00 oclock on saturday, the winter storm watch, all the way from greenway down to chicago, all of southeast wisconsin extending west into western wisconsin and ends at midnight sunday night. Now, nothing going on right now around our area. Here is the low, starting to push out of the mountains. It will be i
Victims as well. Firefighters say the home was consumed by flames been five minutes. On wednesday afternoon, the blaze tore through the roof and quickly spread. Officials say 68yearold benjamin langford, his wife cynthia and son ian were trapped inside. They had to knock a mole in the wall to get ian out. He was quite large. Larger than the average person that it probably took six and eight people to physically pick him up and remove him. Reporter sadly, cynthia and benjamin died. The family was morbidly obese and the home was extremely cluttered. It is sad. Nobody deserves this. Reporter liz mulberry often stopped by the house. She said they were a private family and she is not shocked by this. I am not surprised. Firefighters on edge. They stayed there all night dousing the house. When you have that much material in there like a compost pile where you have a large amount of heat that is compressed. It is allowed to intensify and grow. Reporter the state fire marshal says it started i
Even killing some animals. Tonight, we hear from the owner of that billing. Paul mueller joins us live from town and country at the scene and i can still see the smoke behind you paul. Reporter yeah, it is still billowing up jen. Good evening. The owner as you can imagine is in shock right now. The building you are looking at behind me, 14,000 square feet. A total loss. Get a good live look. Firefighters demolishing it after getting the flames and inside that building, as you said, two dozen animals. The sad news here, several of them including a monkey, are dead. Now, the fire broke out just after 2 00 this afternoon here at renew it supply. This is in the 5800 block of barry road. It is just off the vets. Again, 14,000 square feet. Paper, pet products, chemicals. At one point, there were several explosions. Firefighters forced to run out of the building. Outside. The owner of the building also had animals in connection with a rescue organization. Two dogs, 22 cats, six birds, and a m
The owner told me he has a rescue so sometimes he brings his pets over to give them daily attention, that is why there were cats inside the building and birds inside the building as well as a monkey. He was very emotional this afternoon, anytime i talked to him offcamera he starts crying because he doesnt suspect they survived, there were some cats that did escape but the monkey did not nor did some of the birds. He told me he plans to fix the building at some point but wants to sell it, he had no insurance, this is a big loss for him, hopefully pretty soon the firefighters will get into the building to put the fire out, they have been here for at you heard is a multipurpose building, you can see some cleaning supplies they house in the building many aerosol cans and many are definitely flammable. All of that inside of the warehouse you can see it is endless with the cleaning supplies, we will closely follow the story, stay with us for the updates onair and online at abcactionnews. Com
This white smoke is coming out of here. They are spraying water into the warehouse. Can you see the you can see the melt garage door bent in from the flames and how hot this is. The owner estimates there is a million worth of supplies in there that has burned up. He said there is a lot of Paper Products as well. So that, obviously, leading to the flammability. Saying b here that has made it tough to get this out, it is trapping the heat out to fight the fire and of course before they even speculate about cause, they have to get it out. They move to the next phase but no injuries here. It is causing though some closures on to the veterans that were right by. Right now it looks like traffic is getting by that we can see so far but there have been closures consider dale mabry to avoid this. Well be here and bring you the latest at 6 00. All right. And before we get let yougo before we let yougo, any concerns about the chemicals. There were supplies. They were leading to smaller explosions