6 confirmed dead in Hartland apartment fire, criminal investigation underway
Updated: 6:10 p.m. on October 23, 2022
HARTLAND, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Police confirm the identities of the six decedents as two adults and four children.
The names of the adults are Connor McKisick and Jessica McKisick.
The four children include two three-year-old boys, a 12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl.
HARTLAND, Wis. (CBS 58) -- Authorities say an apartment fire in Hartland Friday morning, Oct. 21 left six people dead.
Responders, including 15 fire departments and nine police departments, responded to a four-family apartment building around 5:11 a.m. and began rescuing people from the balconies.
Initial reports indicated that seven people were killed in the incident, however officials later corrected the number to six.
Officials at the scene confirmed an active criminal investigation is underway.
CBS 58 spoke to neighbors who say they heard sirens early this morning that continued for at least a half an hour.
Most of them say they didn't know what was going on until much later.
One man who lives in the area says he came outside to see where the sirens were coming from and saw the flames.
He says he realized that the fire was coming from a building he was soon planning to move into.
"I know there was a family in the lower level because I was supposed to move into that apartment later this month. It was a family of three toddlers and two adults," said neighbor Jacob LaCrosse.
CBS 58 also spoke to a neighbor who says he has lived in the area for more than 30 years and nothing like this has ever happened before.