these are town homes. he s held back saying it was a total loss at this time. fire crews recalled them in at a 2 alarm fire at the site with flames visible on the first and second floors, it escalated to a 5 alarm. to 40 people were evacuated and embers were high in the air and there was a threat of exposure in nearby buildings. firefighters are outside of the building and ladder pipes are up. firefighters will not attempt to go inside until daylight hours. we went to five alarms, 90 personnel responded, it s a substantial amount of resources. we had 13 companies and several command staff, it s a huge incident. anything beyond 5 alarms is taxing the agency s resources. it was brought down to a 4- alarm. it s a construction project called oakland 2 ice house. ment move in date was in december. about 55 units are impacted. city ventures said it had 15 to 16 security cameras and a security guard stationed at the site. so if you come back out here live. okay. we just loss l
moon flower court has been evacuated. this is 11 homes, 11 families that have been evacuated. the police got a call about smoke coming from a garage. when they got here they found two people had been injured. one person had life-threatening injuries and the other person is said to be okay. taken to the hospital, again, we are still trying to figure out more information about the extent of their injuries but i did encounter a lot of people here who are waiting to get back inside and one of those people who were evacuated was suzie. can you tell us what you heard and saw? reporter: at 3:00 we heard a big boom and came out and there was smoke and what do the explosion? i don t know but we were told it was fireworks. you said you know the folks that live there? yes. yes. we have lived here 46 years. can you tell me the extent of their injuries and what you know? all i know i was told that one of the kids lost a finger and a thumb and broke his arm and the other
police and bomb squad detonated fireworks found in a home. families relieved, returned home after a frightening ordeal when they heard an explosion hours earlier. i didn t know what it was. what came in my mind it was a gas leak. that is how loud it was. reporter: this neighbor and her father among the dozens of families of families evacuated with just the clothe ons their backs. firefighter called after smoke was firefighters called to the home e after smoke was seen coming from a garage sunday afternoon. inside two people hurt. they were handing the fireworks and caused the injuries. reporter: her boyfriend is one of the victims. she heard the explosion go off. fearing the worse. when i went in the garage i saw him on the ground. my friends were running out of the garage. the tips of his fingers blown off. finger tips and burns on his chest. i know it could have been worse. the man and a friend were rushed to the medical center. she says the friend had a o
mostly sunny conditions by this afternoon. highs in the inland areas will hit the upper 70s around the bay. low 60s at the coast. good morning. a closure in the east bay. we ll update that in a second. you have four lanes in the southbound direction on the golden gate to get the lane configurations overnight. they are taking down a current overpass construction as the full freeway closures southbound 880 at 23rd in oak land, there is a detour in place. there is a lot of traffic trying to get to southbound. they hope to pick that up. you are being diverted off and right back onto the freeway at 23rd. speck delays. we will follow that until they pick it up. okay. thanks, sue. in the south bay, people are back in their homes following an explosion that happened on rootflower court yesterday afternoon. jobina has more about the two men hurt when illegal fireworks went off. reporter: incident was a long sunday for people in this quiet san jose community. neighbors forced to
show you the damage. reporter: you can see the fire caused a lot of damage. burned mattress here and some furniture. the house is all boarded up and all this damaged furniture on the front lawn. the fire broke out at this house on the 3900 block of hamilton park drive at about 1:00. firefighters told anybodies to evacuate their homes while they fought the blaze. fortunately, it didn t spread to other homes but the person who lives here was displaced and helped by the red cross. we are hearing that investigators are looking into possible arson, but we have yet to confirm that. reporting live in san jose, i m sharon katsuda, today in the bay. sharon, thank you. it is 5:01 now and the latest on the saudi journalist killed inside a consulate in turkey. top saudi official is trying to fill in the blanks on how this all happened. today in the bay s tracie potts is live on capitol hill. washington lawmakers are not buying what the saudi officials are saying, which is that