Up out of a sound sleep. Crews from emeryville, oakland, and Alameda County got the fire under acontrol by eight am, but the blackened crane reaching toward the sky is whats keeping them from getting the flames completely out. Those tens of thousands of pounds of metalcould potentially collapse. Thats the last thing we want to do is put firefighters at risk to extinguish fires inside of a building thats still under construction, so were not going to allow any firefighters to go in until that crane is secured. And that means road closures on san pablo, adeline, and other streets wont go away until that point either. Crews evacuated about 35 people from a separate, nearby complexbecause theyre in the potential collapse zone of the crane. They also cant go home until the crane is taken care of. My landlord called me at about 9 30 this morning, asked me do i know the building caught fire again . Someone set it on fire again . I couldnt believe it. I almost broke out in tears. He says again
Emeryville it was burning an unfinished building, and it didnt hurt anybody. This morning this lady was running down the street and she was saying, fire fire and it woke us up out of a sound sleep. And we went outside and the same building that was caught on fire in july was the same building that was on fire. Darlis manning saw almost the same thing last year. And the dejavu continues with a crane used in the constructionstill perched high above the site. Fire officials worry tens of thousands of pounds of steel acould come tumbling downthe crane has to be dismantled before we can get any crews in to extinguish any fires that are still remaining inside. Some people on the opposite side of the burning building were evacuatedbecause they live within the potential collapse zone of the crane. But manning took action long before that. We just evacuated, actually before they said evacuate because we knew what happened last time. So we just got out. Neighbors two blocks away say wind carried