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Milwaukee police are investigating a house fire near Bremen and Center streets as arson.According to police, the suspect intentionally set a vacant house on fire Tuesday at approximately 11 p.m. Upon arrival, firefighters found a vacant 2 story house fully engulfed in flames. The fire department called a second alarm to mobilize additional fire trucks and resources to the scene.Firefighters said the home where the fire started eventually collapsed.All the residents in the homes nearby were able to evacuate on their own.The Red Cross is providing assistance to the seven people who were displaced.One firefighter sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to the hospital. No other injuries were reported. According to neighbors, the home where the fire started had been unoccupied for years and was recently undergoing construction.WISN 12 News spoke with a man who lives across the street and watched as crews battled the flames.”I heard something outside, and it sounded like two cars hitting each other, and I just walked upstairs, and it was like my whole living room was, like, lit up,” Dixon said. “It was basically just like every bit of that house was on fire. It was just the biggest, biggest fire I’ve ever seen in my life.”