Update: More details on South Milwaukee’s supporting role in fighting last week’s West Allis funeral home fire, from Acting Chief Joe Knitter: “As part of their MABAS Box Alarm response, we sent a fire engine to stand by at their station on 71st and National Avenue but never made it to the scene. Our crew remained available for other responses, of which there were none, and were released within an hour.”
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Also, the South Milwaukee Fire Department responded to the West Allis funeral home fire last week.
And NOW has published a new police blotter, including this item from South Milwaukee …
A resident of the 1300 block of James Circle reported seeing a man in a camouflage jacket pointing what appeared to be a handgun at houses about 2:20 p.m. Nov. 28. Officers found a man in the area wearing such a jacket; he had a hawk on his arm. He had a device with a pistol-style grip that is a telemetry unit to track his hawk, which has sensor devices on it. The man had his hawk out hunting and was just trying to get it back when the resident saw him. He was advised to find a more rural area for this activity.
And this disturbing item from Cudahy …
A 47-year-old Shawano woman and a 52-year-old Cudahy woman were arrested for child neglect Nov. 23. The Shawano woman was responsible for caring for her 3-year-old granddaughter while her daughter was in the hospital. Just before 1 p.m., the 3-year-old rang a doorbell in the 5600 block of South Swift Avenue, and asked the residents if they could take her home. The residents saw she was accompanied by the Cudahy woman, who they said appeared to be drunk and at one point fell onto the child. They called police and the woman took the child and left. Officers found the child in a car with two strangers, pulled over on the side of the road. The motorists said the little girl flagged them down and was cold and inappropriately dressed for the weather, as well as scared and wanting to go home. The grandmother told officers she had fallen asleep on the couch with the girl on her lap the night before, and that when she woke up at 7 a.m. the child was gone. When officers went to the home the grandmother was staying, they found her 52-year-old Shawano boyfriend in another room with marijuana. He was arrested for drug possession.
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