Editor’s note: A this month on the South Side prompted us to update this story, which we first published in July 2019. When a fire started to burn in the upstairs flat of a duplex, the downstairs neighbor called the Milwaukee Fire Department. As smoke billowed from the windows, the upper duplex’s occupant had failed to respond. Carlos Velazquez-Sanchez said when he and other firefighters broke the door to enter the home, they found a ham cooking—or rather burning—in the oven. It turned out that the upstairs neighbor was an elderly woman who had gone to church and thought she had more time.