Full of fuel. People driving right by the fire. The freeway just feet away and now the freeway is shut down. Massive black smoke coming out of the facility t. Contra costa county sheriff declaring it a Hazardous Materials emergency. A quake felt here in the bay area as nerves were already rattled. That one big enough to cause two refineries to malfunction. Breaking news in san francisco. The vote to ban private cars on a major thoroughfare. Actress Felicity Huffman reports to prison for her role in the College Admissions scandal. Former official is sayg about club fed. Whats happened is we have at least two tanks with failure releasing chemicals that are now burning. Those chemicals are from this fire in Contra Costa County. Shelterinplace advisories issued for crockett and rodeo. That means thousand of people are being told to stay inside in order to stay safe, shelterinplace. Good evening. Im dan ashley. Im kristen sze. That fire is still burning at the Nustar Energy facility in rode
Youre watching kpix 5 news at 5 30 pm. We have breaking news. A fire and explosion. And massive storage tanks containing ethanol have been burning for hours now. Big, black smoke prompted a shelterinplace for People Living in crockett. Good evening. We are expecting a live News Conference to take place any minute. But before the, we will go to our reporter who is live. Reporter take a look behind me, in the last few minutes, we have once again seen this die down. About 10 minutes ago, we saw flames actually on the ground, picking up through that Firefighting Foam. Things seem to have calmed down here at this point. I dont know if you can see those of firefighters. They are pulling fire hoses up the hillside. A few minutes ago we saw about 10, 20 firefighters. We dont know at this point. We are awaiting a cow fire press conference. We are seeing some smoke coming up from those things. That perhaps contain as no, this is what we were told. At least three of them contain ethanol. This fir
Threatened tanks by pouring water on them. In the meantime on the other tanks, two tanks that are burning, theyve been putting they have brought foam material as well and also cooling them down with water. Crews are down there. I know you cant see them from here, but they are down there really attacking this fire very aggressively. Let me just also tell you what theyre also bringing here, firefighters. We are told that the refineries nearby are bringing also experts to monitor this situation and also bring in special equipment. I mean, you know, chemical fires are different and require the expertise of people who know how to deal with them. They are bringing special equipment to help these firefighters here. They have about 200 people on scene from different agencies, but 200 people right now trying to combat that fire. They are combatting it again attacking it with foam and water. Now we had vegetation fires, about 15 acres were burning. That is no longer an issue. They, again, aggres
Before 1 50 pm. I80 is shut down in both directions there. The chp is saying that the highway could potentially be shut down until midnight, depending on how long this fire burns. Contra Costa Health Services is calling this an emergency. A shelterinplace remains in effect for people in crockett and rodeo. Lets get you straight to our reporter, who has been live. What you tell us right now . Reporter we just wrapped up a press conference with the pio. Lets take a look. We are told that there is some fuel on the ground, from that collapse tinker. This is where we keep seeing those flareups through the foam on the ground here. We also found out that i80 highway 4, until at least ve lo chopper shots right now. You can see the steam coming off of the facility out here. Firefighters are still putting foam and water on this fire to try to knock it down and keep it from impinging on any of these tanks here. Some of those contain jet fuel. Here is steve hill, with more information about this v
Neighborhood where there is a shelter in place. Sal castaneda is here tracking the i80 closure and the best way to get around. We begin with tom vacar. How are the efforts going . Reporter lets take a look at what is going on. This is the third time we have seen this. You think the fire is out. It is hardly smoking at all and suddenly it flares back up and it suggests there is a lot of unburned product down there that may be leaking from another tank or leaking from pipes that were cooked in this conflagration that has gone on for hours now. They still have a big fire on their hands. It is sending a large plume of smoke into the air and that has caused a shelter in place in the city of crockett and suggested one for the city of rodeo which is very close by. Looking at this what we are seeing in effect is unburned product hydrocarbons going up in the air. Very toxic and bad for you. You can see hoses all around there. Those hoses are spreading foam out there and the phone is very good b