this plant processes about 240,000-barrels of crude oil a at the same time we ve seen two plumes of fire and smoke rising and at this point we don t know, again, what started the fire, but julie you ve westbound been reporting for us through our facebook page. we ve got reports of reports of people hearing an explosion. i just got some new information handed to me. that s coming from the richmond fire department. they just arrived on the scene. the fire department just told kcu this is a process unit fire. it s a processed unit fire that started at 6:30 this evening; it s a level 3. there was no explosion, you can see the fire of the flames here. right now you see that single flair. they re telling us it seems to be a puff link on the crude unit column and think ear telling us no confirmed injuries at this point. again, we do have a crew roan route to the scene. also i m told we have a residence, denise, can you hear me. she s a resident to get her perspective of what she s
battalion chief that requires this crane to remain on site in case something like this happens. we arrived. we put the crane on site into place. we actually have done training with this in case the situation arose. reporter: none of the riders in the end were hurt. and the superman ride will remain closed for a thorough inspection here at six flags. it won t reopen until the problem has been identified and properly fixed. live this morning in vallejo alex savidge ktvu channel 2 news. one of the men suspected of abducting a monterey county teenager is in custody this morning but the man hunt continues for his son who is the boyfriend of the victim 16- year-old eunice serrato went missing saturday night after two men were killed in her father s home. serrato s 19-year-old boyfriend and father are considered persons of interest in that double homicide. investigators say the 19-year- old suspect should be considered armed and dangerous. torres is expected to enter a plea.
morning news. good morning, thank you for waking up with us, it is thursday june 14, i am pam cook. we want to update you on a story we first told you about at 4:30, a massive fire, the fire lit up the night sky and this has shut down bart service between the east bay and san francisco. now we have live team coverage for you and sal of course has all the details about the traffic nightmare. a reporter, kara lou is here at the scene, so what do you know, kara? reporter: well firefighters are still working and i want to show you what they are working on and i will show you what is left of the pudding. we are seeing a lot of smoke and firefighters are spraying water from the hoes trying to get this thing under control but firefighters have had their hands full all morning. this fire broke out when we got here and a short time after we heard explosions and spot fires and embers being carried by the wind. this was a three-alarm fire and it was senior apartments under constru