Fatal Milwaukee fire started in abandoned house, spread rapidly [Video]

MILWAUKEE – Neighbors think a fast-moving fire that killed a woman and badly burned a Milwaukee firefighter could have been prevented.

Neighbors say it somehow sparked at a house that was boarded up.

On Sunday, April 14, when the fire started, the flames jumped to the homes next door to it.

Now a woman is dead, and a firefighter has horrific burns.

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“I’m sad because she passed away. It’s hard I lost my home, where I lived for 8 years. Now I have to find a new home,” said Rosa Serna, who is now picking up the pieces after a fire that started next door spread to her home near 8th and Hayes early Sunday morning.

“I looked out the window, I saw fire out the window and ran outside,” Serna added.

Cell phone video shows the powerful flames. Serna says …