Intersection of maui avenue and boycott road. We have more on developing news. Debra, this is the 4th shooting. What do we know about what happened . Reporter well, frank, the man who was shot is still alive. Thats the last word from fremont police. The alterication was in a parking lot. He was waving pipe or pole at people threatening the deadly force. Cell phone video in the moments after the shooting shows a man on the ground writhing in pain. He stood there. The passer by captured the video. The man stopped tolding his hands in the area before an officer shot him. For me as a mother, it was not justified. The confrontation was at a parking lot near a Grocery Store and Orchard Supply hardware. This man was startled by the gun fire. You would think there are people running around. There was nothing like that. People were shocked it was mid afternoon. It quickly unfolded within 1 to 3 minutes. Someone in the area flagged down a passing patrol officer. The information the officer recei
Correct. Good morning, laura and sam. The fouralarm fire here at the waverly construction site has been out for a couple of hours, but there are safety concerns, a lot of hot spots. Thats why you see the Oakland Fire Department still spraying water on the site. And the other concerns, the construction crane you see is scorched. Theyre supposed to be flying a drone to help determine what, if any, danger there is to that crane falling down. Osha and the crane operator also expected here to figure out how to safely dismantle that crane so it no longer poses a threat. The fire was so tremendous, so rapid in its movement, oakland firefighters took a defense si posture almost immediately after their 4 30 a. M. Arrival. Establishing a perimeter water line while the flames consumed the apartment construction. The danger of collapse was real. Watch the bottom right side of your tv screen. Part of the building crumbled onto the road before, fortunately missing firefighters. The radiant heat was
Griego. Im anne makovec, in for kenny choi. The fire started at around 4 30 this morning at 24th and valdez streets in oakland just a few blocks away from lake merritt and auto row. We have Live Team Coverage on the fire and the evacuations. First, kpix 5s Katie Nielsen is at the scene. Katie. Reporter firefighters are still pouring water into whats left of this building. They are actually trying to put out any remain hot spots so that the investigators from the Alameda County Arson Task Force as well as atf can get in and start figuring out how this fire started. Smoke, ash and embers billowed into the earlymorning sky as the development at 2424 valdez went up in flames. Before we knew it, the fire had spread to the elevator shaft on the opposite side of the building. And once it hit that, it just took off. Reporter the first 911 call came in at 4 30 and firefighters got to the scene less than five minutes later. Our units summoned needly based on the size of the buildings and the con
At st. Vincent de Paul Community center. That will be open as long as they are displaced. Reporter it was supposed to be 30,000 square feet with up to 196 multifamily units from studios to two bedrooms. This brings to mind other apartment fires. Arson investigators are on the case, no cause yet. Its way to early to make conclusions about this fire. But that issue is one that concerns us. Reporter the mayor says she is concerned and is going to make sure that any future apartment Construction Projects here in the city have sufficient cameras and security crews and she is also asking oakland residents, veronica, to make sure that if theres one going up across the street to be on the lookout to make sure it doesnt happen again. On that note, does the developer at this burnedout construction site even plan to rebuild . Reporter yes. We talked to Council Member gibsonmcelhaney that they are going to rebuild. The plan is to put it back the way it was after the foundation is stable. Thank you
Up and protected them. Even as late as this afternoon, fire crews were still dousing hot spots. For all the carnage at the site, no deaths, no injuries. This is not a ghost ship story thankfully. Reporter so this building was set to be about 200 apartment units. Oakland City Council Member mcelhaney says once they review the foundation and make sure its stable, they will rebuild thank you. Our kpix 5 crews rushed to the scene and were there at the height of the fire all morning long. The flames were raging right behind our reporters and photographers for hours as fear crews worked to get them under control. Kpix 5s Katie Nielsen tells us what it was like. Reporter we got to the scene about 5 00 this morning and from where we were standing right here, the heat from the fire was so intense, it felt like a blast furnace. Ash was everywhere. As we said, neighbors will be kept out of their homes until that crane comes down. The red cross has just opened this shelt for those displaced at the