Mayor had to say about this. Reporter the ghost ship fire revealed dangerous oversights by the city. It has been 11 months. The mayor said this internal memo is proof there has been progress. But a long way before the city delivers on the promises. With a table full of her Staff Administration department the mayor invited media this morning to her office. To clarify what oakland has accomplished since the fire. And what needs work. The city plans to do more than two double its inspectors staff at the end of 2018. None are on staff yet. The Fire Department is working to catch up on 1000 backlog mandated inspections. Oakland plans to implement a digital interdepartmental system to show information on Problem Properties is more easily shared. The families are asking why it took a fire to get the city to get things done. The improvements we are making our improvements we should have been making as a normal course of business. Taking advantage of new technological advances. New business pra
we know the san francisco fire chief has arrived on scene area firefighters are just mopping up after it was contained. they tell me they got the call right around 330 this morning. it was neighbors who called in the fire. when they got to the scene they saw smoke billowing from the second floor. the heat and the smoke and debris, we had a fire fight to secure the area so we could do the search and also keeping the fire at bay while we removed the victim the second victim was also on the second floor. we are told that they were two elderly gentleman who live in the home. 60 firefighters responded to this morning s house fire. one of the biggest challenges is theebris that they found in the home. the assistant captain told me they were stockpiling is at about 6 ft. tall. there is still no cause to the fire and investigators will be on the scene trying to feed figure out how this all happened. developing news in oakland, a driver is dead after speeding through city street