MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ) – Residents of Manitowoc’s Parkview Haven Apartment complex have started to return home.
Northeast Wisconsin Red Cross Chapter Executive Steve Hansen says life is getting back to normal for some of the 88 tenants displaced in the May 10 blaze.
“Some of the residents have started to be able to get back in to those apartments that are located furthest from where that actual fire took place.
Hansen says others are likely to follow.
“As the restoration company continues to work on that building and the other apartments are made available, residents who decide to go back into that building will be provided access and will be able to do so. It certainly could be a month or two before they get back in. These things tend not to happen overnight.”
The Red Cross executive was unable to provide the number of residents who have returned home, and WTAQ has not heard back from the management company that owns the apartment.
Hansen notes his organization worked with those displaced for the first month after the fire, facilitating emergency shelter, food, clothing, and supplies.
“We’ve transitioned those residents through that phase. They are now working with our partners in the Manitowoc community to help them establish some longer-term housing.”
WTAQ has reached out to Manitowoc Fire Chief Todd Blaser, who says he has not yet received the remaining paperwork from the investigation and cannot provide the cause of the blaze.
The fire claimed the life of one resident, 57-year-old Dana Bushman.
