Correct. Good morning, laura and sam. The fouralarm fire here at the waverly construction site has been out for a couple of hours, but there are safety concerns, a lot of hot spots. Thats why you see the Oakland Fire Department still spraying water on the site. And the other concerns, the construction crane you see is scorched. Theyre supposed to be flying a drone to help determine what, if any, danger there is to that crane falling down. Osha and the crane operator also expected here to figure out how to safely dismantle that crane so it no longer poses a threat. The fire was so tremendous, so rapid in its movement, oakland firefighters took a defense si posture almost immediately after their 4 30 a. M. Arrival. Establishing a perimeter water line while the flames consumed the apartment construction. The danger of collapse was real. Watch the bottom right side of your tv screen. Part of the building crumbled onto the road before, fortunately missing firefighters. The radiant heat was
People in the area have been evacuated from their homes. Because this started at such an early time in the morning, people were probably woken up by this probably by alarms or trucks coming through with the sirens and didnt have time to evacuate and leave. So katie was saying on the ground, a lot of people were coming out in their pajamas, grabbing pets and anything they could coming out of their homes. We are going to go back to katie, who is live out there on the scene. Katie. Reporter good morning. So right now we can actually confirm there are two burning homes next to the building. It looks like firefighters are trying to start a ground attack on those flames. Right now, they have crews with ladder trucks. They are spraying water from above. And what were seeing is they are trying to fight it from above. Firefighters say right now, they dont have any reports of injuries because they were able to evacuate people out of the area before the fire started spreading to nearby homes. We
Griego. Im anne makovec, in for kenny choi. The fire started at around 4 30 this morning at 24th and valdez streets in oakland just a few blocks away from lake merritt and auto row. We have Live Team Coverage on the fire and the evacuations. First, kpix 5s Katie Nielsen is at the scene. Katie. Reporter firefighters are still pouring water into whats left of this building. They are actually trying to put out any remain hot spots so that the investigators from the Alameda County Arson Task Force as well as atf can get in and start figuring out how this fire started. Smoke, ash and embers billowed into the earlymorning sky as the development at 2424 valdez went up in flames. Before we knew it, the fire had spread to the elevator shaft on the opposite side of the building. And once it hit that, it just took off. Reporter the first 911 call came in at 4 30 and firefighters got to the scene less than five minutes later. Our units summoned needly based on the size of the buildings and the con
In the middle of the flames. 13 minutes later, 5 45 a side of the Apartment Building being constructed, was scheduled to be completed by next february just collapsed. We do have Team Coverage for you on this still breaking story in oakland. We will bring with ktvus Christien Kafton. Youre out there right now. Youve been out there for several hours. Now, what is going on out there now . And who is with you . Reporter yeah. Yeah. Weve been here all morning long. We have one of the construction workers who have been working on this project. So were looking to talk with in the middle of the street. Reporter it had to be difficult to watch the fire burn this morning. Yes, it is. Reporter any idea what may have happened . I know it is preliminary. You came into work. Did you hear anything about this when you came in . No. Just what i seen on the news this morning. Reporter and when you see this kind of fire going on here, what are you thinking as youre watching it all burn . You have a uniqu
Building itself collapsed. Here it is as it happened. Major portion of this building just collapsed. Can we just show you right here . A huge portion of that building just came tumbling down. Wow. And we hope we hope there was no one in that vicinity. You see debris pouring out on to the street. We had two cameras that captured that very moment. Take a look at the second view. Watch out. As of now, we have not heard of any injuries or anyone missing. The smoke and flames were seen all over the east bay and San Francisco. Road closures in the area are still in effect. With that, good morning. Welcome to the 9. What a battle the firefighters had when they just rolled up to the scene at 4 30. Massive flames, swinging cranes, trying to evacuate people who were sleeping in neighboring buildings. What was interesting is i was here when the fire started. I heard the initial call come over the radios. They arrived and it was just smoke and they were check thanksgiving out. From like that it tu