Portions of the walls and removing freestanding pieces of material in areas of the warehouse investigators dont believe anyone was in the night of the fire. We have completely searched the area directly below where we are knocking these down, we have not only run people through there we have ran the cadaver dogs and other search dogs, at this point we have declared the area where the debris will fall searched. The building was not equipped with fire sprinklers or smoke detectors. The autopsies show everybody died from smoke inhalation. It was before any fire or collapsing. The origin of the fire they believe is toward the back of the warehouse near a refrigerator, officials are being mindful of family members and loved ones seeing the demolition pictures on tv and social media. They are informing everyone of the next critical piece of the operation. We are extremely sensitive and we are aware that families are watching and they are receiving this information. While most of the building
Vicki coming up after the break, grant find out what the city is doing in response to thisheres a look at some of the people who lost their lives in the deadly oakland fire. Music this just in to the kron 4 newsroom. Grant there would be a press conference at 545 pertaining to the warehouse we just mentioned. Grant time for action. That was the focus for some members the oaklands city council today. At a public works addressed by the city to warehouse fire. Earlier vicki today three city councilmembers talked to these prevention measures. We need to understand whether the Building Department has systems for accountability we need to look at staffing up in Fire Prevention we know what we need to do we just gotta do it reporter members of the Oakland City Council are taking action to preparing for a vote on an Emergency Declaration being Council Later this week but before that happens councilmembers on the Public Works Committee want to make sure the following questions are answered numb
Flowers here to be quite honest but that the aroma from the Fresh Flowers has completely overtaken the smell of the fire. A beautiful site to see. Many people coming by to give prayers and send condolences to the many victims. We got a chance to hear about their lives today. For some those precious memories are cherished in the place that felt the most like home. For noel that place was high wire coffee in berkeley. Both of these guys were so full of care and full of love. Noel did not just lose one friend, she lost two in friday nights fire. The three of them worked together at high wire until recently. Emily decided it was time for a change. She was going to move to brooklyn, plans to move there and was really focusing on her poetry and her writing. Donna was a barista scheduled to work saturday morning but never showed up. And trying to find donna, the first person i reached out to was noinging that she was close to donna and i found out from another barista they had plans to go out
Several city officials who we have not heard from yet. Now that the recovery operation is winding down, the focus is turning to what happened before this fire occurred and how it could be prevented or could have been prevented, and while the city planning and Building Department says they did receive complaints about the property in recent years they were mostly about the vacant lot next door. While inspectors visited that property as recently as three weeks ago they made no effort to go inside the warehouse. In terms of the planning and building inspector, our records didnt show an inspector had been inside the building in the last 30 years. That means there were no applications for permits no, applications for permits in the last po years and there were no violations that were submitted for interior work within the Main Building attributed to that street address. Im creating a task force of National Fire safety experts. Now my immediate priorities for this task force are enhanced bui
I am reggie aqui. With jessica and alexis. Mike . A couple more days of this so get used to it. Good morning, everyone, this is the first of many. Right now if you are theying of going through the sunol grade, mission road, the parkway, all the way down to 680 and 880 coming together, here is a look at the waves of moisture rolling through. Moderate this morning but for the south bay we talk about the rain shadow, at. 04 and 280 17. So moderate at morning and light at noon. Mild are temperatures in the upper 50s to increasely sick. Alexis . We are off to a rough start. A crash since before 400 this morning westbound 580 before isabel in dublin, the two right lanes are blocked and the backup is approaching five miles. That will merge with the typical delays through the a pass. Northbound 80 we had a spend intermediate crash hit by another vehicle so it cleared a few moments ago and the backup continues to grow. I will confirm that. A couple of crashes either side of 101 southbound and n