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MILWAUKEE ( WDJT ) -- More than a dozen unhoused people have made their homes under a bridge next to the Kinnikinnic River.

After historic flooding, outreach volunteers tell us many people there lost everything, and some lost their lives.

"In all the years that I've been down here, I've never seen nothing like that. Never," said Chris Lovejoy, who has lived under the bridge near 1st Street and South Chase Avenue in Bay View for nearly five years.

He tells us he lost everything he had there on Aug. 9 to flooding rains.

"I gave up on humanity that day, because I thought nobody came down here to see if we we're okay," Lovejoy said.

He is thankful that Street Angels came a couple days later, giving him a new tent and sleeping bag.

"They keep everyt

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