Plant. the crosby fire department initiated that rescue. the next morning or later this morning somewhere after daylight and remember it to be somewhere around 7:00 a.m. or 8:00 a.m., the members that were work do you think at the eo contraction had a conference call with arkema corporate offices and think asked for a complete evacuation of the plant. shortly after that, an hour or so later, department of homeland security infrastructure protection contacted myself and chief reed with the harris county fire marshal s office and others. we had an extensive conference call and talked about what was going on out at arkema. since that time, we developed a plan with the crosby fire department who is the incident commander on this incident.
O malley, the district attorney and i want to just begin by echoing what chief reed just said, and that is to acknowledge the dedicated hard work of the first responders, the firefighters, law enforcement and including all of the leaders of those organizations who worked so hard over the last several days to make sure that this tragic event is being addressed with the utmost seriousness and focus that we can. i want to thank specifically the atf for their expertise and working so closely with my investigative team. between the atf and my team we have conducted numerous interviews with witnesses, we are working with the atf and the oakland fire department to identify what we can from the evidence that s been presented, the analysis is ongoing and that will continue. as you know, my office now
Mayor shchaaf, oakland fire department chief reed and deputy chief hoffman, sergeant ray kelly who is to my left, with the alameda county sheriff s office, coroner s bureau and we have other city, not only leaders but services that are here on stage with us today from the city administrator to the chief of police to the red cross to building division for the city of oakland. we have a lot of new faces, and our media, our guests today so we would ask you identify who you are and which media agency you are with when it comes to question time, but please allow you to provide us with information and then we will have question time and expect questions from you. so, please allow us to