At the intersection. It is amazing to see this. It is a busy area next to the Moscone Center and center and we have seen children on field trips walk past this. Despite the work, the city is still moving. The water has been rerouted so people would live and work in the area should not be see their service affected. The intersection at 4th and howard in San Francisco looks different at 3 00 a. M. A water main burst in the middle of the street. It let out a nonstop flow of water for an hour plodding flooding the busy area. The water rushed into the parking garage flooding the loading dock and the subway project was impacted. It is underwater, 1 foot underwater. All the worker said the tunnel quickly filled up. We have three levels and each flooded. The bottom is 1 foot under water. It was a 12 water main that burst. All the pipeline that broke dates back to 1895. When you have a pipeline that old age is the likely factor. Traffic control is diverting cars around the area. Repairs are exp
That all that water caused a lot of emotion. The earth shifted meaning the soil, of course, and they had to cut a larger than expected hole as you see there to replace all that washed away. At 3 00 this morning emergency crews found water bubbling from two spots in the pavement. Water had already made its way to nearby garages. The loading dock at the Marriott Hotel also flooded. Very little, if any, damage to any of the properties. There was some flooding spillage into a couple of other garages in the area. Reporter the new mosconi underground station is part of the new project and it, too, got flooded and construction there is still going on. While there was a reduction in water pressure, service to people who live and work there was never interrupted. The water from the 12inch pipe was rerouted. A huge hole in the old pipe was discovered. Crews worked quickly to replace that section of the right above it is a much larger 30inch distribution line. This is a castiron pipe. First insta
The warehouse. It documents the area of origin, placement of things, items engineers are looking at. Reporter they have photos before the fire and now they want to capture after the fire to document the scene. Outlets, power cords, anything that could be a possible source of ignition. Reporter they have ruled out a refrigerator as the cause. But their focus is on the back of the warehouse. They brought out this charred machinery and analyzed it. They wouldnt say what it is or why. That was the only item that we saw atf agents brought out today. They were extremely careful with it, very thoroughly examining it. Its hard to make out what it is. It looks like a machinery. But its definitely badly damaged from the fire. , the Forensic Team will take about three days to create this diagram. Live in oakland, im da lin, kpix 5. Right now members of oaklands fruitvale community are honoring the memory of the victims. These are live pictures. City Council Member noel gallo who represents the di
Everything around the area is closed. Water seeped through cracks at fourth and howard strees. Witnesses streets. Witnesses describe water coming from the steet. It went into the underground parking garage and flowed into a construction site. The culprit . A 121 year old pipe. This is a 12inch pipe that was installed in 1895. Reporter crews work to shore up the roads. The city has 1,000 miles of water pipes under the streets, all vawr ying sizes and ages. We are underway with an Aggressive Program to repair and re varying sizes and ages, we are underway with an Aggressive Program to repair and replace the pipes. Its ongoing repair and maintenance. Reporter water officials tell us that the weather could have played a role in the rupture, they said that the breaks happen when the weather changes. Back here, you can see that the crews have a ways to go, they were hoping to get things wrapped up by five or 6 00 but it does not look like its going to happen. The traffic is backed up all the
We know that the refrigerator was not the cause of the fire but we still do not know what was and that is why the atf work goes on and on. Reporter of firenzes mapping team creates lasting digital evidence from rapidly deteriorating physical evidence and in this case they say it will takereporter days to make these diagrams available to investigators. There are several different camera systems that allow them to thoroughly document the scene and they will also prepare a diagram utilizing forensic mapping equipment. He on this the atf agent knew nothing of what was being done by the team and they did not produce a team member to explain or provide such an example of the image, on a more concrete note the electrical engineers concluded that though the refrigerator was close to the source of the fire, the refrigerator itself was not the source. Earlier the fire marshal came to the site. Every time they happen we need to know what happened so we can either change code or reinforce the code