Heres what we know right now. So far. 33 bodies have already been recovered from the building. And about 2 hours ago. Officials released the names of 7 victims. An 8th victim has been been identified but the name is not being released by cause that person is a juvinile. Only 17 years old. And sheriffs also officials confirm today that one of the deceased is the son of a Alameda Coutny sheriff deputy. We have a team of reporters that has been working this story from the beginning. We start tonight. With kron 4s dan kerman who is live at the warehouse where the search continues. And the investigation has taken on an added dimension. R tonight eight of the 33 victims recovered in the warehouse fire have been positively identified. One the victims is a 17yearold whose name will not be released. But we do have the names of the seven others just identified. Here they are will death toll could climb significantly in the meantime the ill me that officials are moving closer logical investigatio
Responsibility and reflect on what happened here and make sure this like never, ever happens again. A community looking for answers. And grieving tonight as we are now able to put faces to the names of some of the victims. Good evening. Im jr stone. 8 families have gotten the grim news that they did not want to hear, a loved one who died in the fire. But there are many other loved ones waiting to hear. Here is what we know so far, again, 33 bodies have been recovered from the burning building. The officials identified 8 victims. One of them a 17yearold. The officials have not officially released his name but we learned he is a San Francisco High School Student. Fire Officials Say 33 people confirmed dead, several appear to be between the ages of that 17yearold and their early 30s. Some of the victims are from other countries such as europe and asia and as of it this afternoon they had only gone through 40 of the building. A criminal investigation has been launched, we now know, by the
Out of the folks was 30. That since moved up to 33. The Sheriffs Department with the grim news that the death toll in the oakland warehouse fire climbed up to 33. 8 of whom have been identified. And the age of the victims is younger than originally thought. We have now started to recover and identify the victims who are minors. We do have some children it in the ages of 17 years old. Possibly younger. Recover efforts are continuing aroundtheclock. As of cent afternoon crews had searched just 3540 of the building. Victims were not clustered in the area. With found victims in the warehouse. If you take the if you take the warehouse from above and you look at it as a box we broken that box into four pieces and each team is working each section. So we found victims in every section. That suggests as the crews make their way through the building the death toll could climb significantly. In the meantime, county officials are moving closer to launching a criminal investigation into this fire.
Reuss be dents residents were staying. She was sleeping. She says that she believe thats one of her other friends and other another tenant who lived there did not survive. He did not knack out of the fire on friday night. She says that situation at that warehouse was a couple of different campers a couple of different rooms fortress dent artist thats stayed there. They she said she was woken but up by the smell of smoke and a glow coming from a door. She believes that the store store fire started in a very back room of the warehouse. She believed it might be possibly electrical. According to her, she was surprised she swears that there were smoke detectors in the warehouse. Firefighters said there were not. I started to call 911. A minute later the power p went out. Went out. So many people were in the tophic dark. People have to had to escape in the dark. Reporter the party was health held on the skid floor second floor. There were several different rooms you could go into to escape s
Age from 17 to people in their mid 30s. Alameda county Sheriffs Office says its still not clear how many people were in the building when it caught fire, and search teams were only able to get through about 40 percent of the warehouse so investigators still dont know how much more bodies could be found. Well continue to follow the story throughout the morning. First we want to get a local check of weather and traffic with steve. Itll be cold tomorrow and rain on the way. When . Looks like an interesting week. Things are changing slowly today. Theres a lot of thick fog out there. Thick fog out there, sal. Yes, there is. Yes, sir. Not widespread but seems to be dancing around and based on experience here and probably picking up between the 67 00 a. M. Hour. Mix of sunshine and clouds and a lot of moisture streaming across the pacific. 30s, 40s, 50s on the temp so few 30s in the mix but a lot of 40s and 50s. It looks okay down in southern california. Everything continues to find of rotate