MILWAUKEE (AP) – Family members say a young boy has died from injuries suffered in a house fire on Milwaukee’s south side last week.
Relatives say 3-year-old Gideon Simos suffered burns to 80% of his body in Wednesday’s fire at a home near 5th and Madison and died Sunday at Children’s Wisconsin hospital.
State Rep. Sylvia Ortiz-Velez says Gideon was her nephew. Ortiz-Velez says his parents were able to get three of their four children out of the burning home, but initially weren’t able to reach Gideon in a first-floor bedroom. Then his mother broke windows with her arms and was able to find her son. She suffered serious burns.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
