Ethanol each area Officials Say that adds up to more than 250,000 gallons of fuel. That may sound like a lot but it is a fraction of what the tank hold. Authorities discussed the massive firefighting effort. Crews poured 15,000 gallons of Firefighting Foam on the fire yesterday which was diluted with water. Has been on the sce all day yesterday and he is back there again today. Tom, we are expecting a News Conference in about 25 minutes or so. Any indication of what they might say or whether there are new developments . Reporter i think there are not new developments or anything they can talk about at this moment. That is why they have backed it up for a little bit. Clearly they are trying to gather more information. You have to understand what is going on here is very slow and pains taking and will pretty dangerous. As a result what you have to do is go slowly carefully so yothat could cost them on an injury or their life. Having said all of that, here is how todays events went and th
Sheriffs department and the d as office to interview witnesses and examine documents and digital data like surveillance video. They are working as one team. We shouldnt be subjected to this. We do not clearly, we do not want Industrial Facilities having accidents like this. Reporter and we are back here live. Again, firefighters now tell us that they have begun removing some of that foam. They are putting that foam into those red containers you see behind us. This is going to be a very long process. They have got a lot of material to work with. They also tell me that the folks here at nustar are fully cooperating with the investigation, adding that a search warrant in a case of this magnitude is not uncommon. Reporting live, jodi hernandez. Thanks for that update. Now, that black smoke billowed from the nustar fire for hours. Its gone. But the question is what hazardous particles were in that smoke and how hazardous was it . Firefighters also sprayed a blanket of foam all day to help c
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Reporter carolyn and orville sanford say their entire house shook yesterday when two tanks burst into flames and smoke at the Nustar Energy facility down the street from their home. Turning a quiet afternoon into a terrifying one. I thought oh, gosh, i hope they dont explode our whole town out. I thought oh, hell. Weve had it now. My dads 81. Hes had three strokes, and he is on oxygen. And it was just a terrible, scary night. Reporter tonight fire crews still have a foam blanket over the explosion site. They want to make sure there is no threat of anything reigniting before they begin removing it. But theyre wasting no time trying to get to the bottom of what went wrong. 11 30 this morning, we served a search warrant on nustar. Reporter contra costa fire says their investigators are working with the atf, the sheriffs department, cal osha, and the d. A. s office to interview witnesses and examine documents and digital data like surveillance. They are all working as one team to investiga
Federal atf investigators are on scene along with cal osha, county, and other local agencies. The plant is shut down until such time osha determines it is no longer hazardous. A quarter million gallons of flammable ethanol materials were consumed, the equivalent of 28 big greg gasoline tanker trucks. So far firefighters have used one and a half million gallons of Firefighting Foam and water mixture to suppress the mixture. The usually dry containment areas that surround the tanks to prevent toxic runoff are holding a lot of materials from the tanks as well as the water and Firefighting Foam. We believe there is no risk of fire but out of an abundance of caution we are keeping foam blankets on both of those containment pods to mitigate any risk of further ignition. The tanks that sit next to the burned ones are being vented into the atmosphere to let off pressure. The tank anti leaking valves were damaged in the fire. That system has been compromised because of the fire so they are vent