Some time tonight it will be dismantled. Crews from alameda county, oakland fire, also emeryville hosing down this building putting out hot spots, making sure crews can get close enough to start work and take the crane down. 35 residents in 15 units on the Southern Side of the building have been evacuated. Its not known when they will be home. Getting to the bottom of the fire and cause will take some time. The massive fire along the Emeryville Oakland border lit up the Early Morning sky on san pablo avenue off interstate 580. The southern corner of add line street was adeline street was evacuated. Three blocks away becca reed was awakened by the sound of sirens. It was huge. It was scary. It was just really freaky. A lot of other neighbors were out. It wasnt totally light yet, but it was huh among gous. Humongous. A construction crane was deemed unsafe. In the process of being dismantled. It was clear to neighbors theyve seen the scene before. Once i got close enough i was like wow th
Talk about. That was not a fun game. Lets not talk about that because things are different now. Yeah, its the post season. It could be a tough series with golden state coming up. They got an emotional boost from a very important visitor yesterday in practice. Were looking for a big mothers day winner today at 12 30. We will talk a lot about the big games. And speaking of mothers day it is time to thank our dear old moms. Lots of people will be out for brunch and hopefully lots of moms will be getting flowers and a whole lot of hugs today. Yes. If youre looking for a gift still. Shame on you. Yeah. Youre going to be paying a lot for flowers if you are buying them today. Take a look at your forecast. We are trying to squeeze in the mothers day activity with the warriors game trying to work that out. What better gift. And for me it was perfect. Give me a burger and a warriors game. Our producer sent us this for what . For tickets. The nosebleed tickets. Okay. I will buy you a big screen.
Overnight just before 1 00 a. M. You can see the crane carefully being brought down. They attached 1 1 2 inch thick cable to the apparatus and they in a very controlled manner pulled it south of the property away from the residents. We took the precautions to have residents moved away from the tem ters of the buildings in case the crane would snap and there were no residents nearby. Reporter we also talked to the owner of the nearby showers of flowers. He is a florist who is experiencing a drought of customers this mothers day. He says he will take all of the flowers that he didnt sell today and donate them. Meantime, atf investigators are expected onsite, and the developer who has said that he believes this is arson again, the second fire here in ten months is now also saying he will rebuild a third time. Live in emeryville, melanie woodrow, abc7 news. All right, thank you, melanie. Another fire, this time in San Francisco, forced ten people out of their homes. It started late this af
Mothers day. Right now Fire Fighters putting out hot spots at the construction site on san pablo avenue in emeryville. Many neighboring families have been let back into their homes but there is still a lot of work to be done. Abc7 News Reporter Melanie Woodrow is live in emeryville with the latest on this. Melanie . Reporter you can see the devastation behind me. There are some residents that have power restored, but most of them are still waiting on pg e crews. We have seen out here today diligently working to restore that power. Here is some video to show you, first you can see a large generator that has been set up. One of the buildings across the street, we believe there were elderly residents in that building. Those residents now have power because of that generator. Otherwise, many others as i mentioned are waiting on pg e. Here is some video of the fire as it burned in the Early Morning hours on saturday. One of the biggest concerns overnight into today was a precarious crane th
At 9 30 this morning, gunman in one car firing shots at another car on poke street in russian hill. Cornell bernard has the details. I dropped to the ground immediately. It was two cars chasing each other. Reporter she took cover when shots rang out. It was right at 9 30, and i heard pop, pop, pop, pop. Reporter michael kellys Home Security camera captured this. A highspeed case down the street from lombard to bay. Police investigators closed two blocks, counting shell casings scattered in the streets. Kevin odonnell saw the action from his apartment window. Two cars side by side blow through the stop sign, high speeds, but continuous bullets ringing out. Reporter from the video you can see a gunpoi pointed out th window of the red bmw. I saw the gun cocked out of the car. Reporter could you believe what you were seeing here . No. Actually, i wasnt prepared for that this morning. On mothers day . Really . Reporter police are looking nor the two suspect cars. Its unknown if anyone in th