MENASHA, WI (WTAQ) – Neenah-Menasha Fire Rescue responded to an apartment fire on First Street around 1:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon and rescued an infant from the building.
Assistant Fire Chief Vernon Green said fire officials were informed that a young child was in the apartment at the time they arrived.
“Took a two-man rescue crew into the apartment and did a search pattern up there. They did find the infant child and brought that child out of the apartment.”
The child was reported not breathing when rescued, but CPR was performed at the scene.
The child was taken to the hospital.
Three other people reported as an adult male and two other children made it out of the house.
One person reported minor burns to the hand or arm area.
Upon arrival, smoke was noticed coming from a second-floor window.
“The fire was knocked down and confined to one room in one apartment.”
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
“We don’t see anything at this points that indicate that it was anything malicious.”
