Fire department cautioned not to read too much into it saying its not necessarily an indicator that there is a criminal investigation, just standard procedure in an incident this large. Less than 24 hours after fire ripped through two tanks at the newstar Energy Storage facility in crockett, investigators with the contra costa fire department, the atf, and other agencies served a search warrant on the site. At 11 30 this morning, we served a search warrant on newstar, and i want to quickly say that you should not form any opinions about that because this is a common practice. Reporter the evidence seized could include documents and computer servers that have video before and during the fire that consumed two tanks that contained about 250,000 gallons of ethanol. Just 1 of their capacity. The huge fire sent a giant plume of black smoke over the area, forcing the closure of interstate 80 at the height of the evening commute. You can get the longterm Health Effects from smoke, b thats whe