With the devastating fire investigators figuring out how it started reporter the enormous 5 alarm fire quickly engulfed the 41 unit structure on lester avenue in oakland this is video from our helicopter partnership with abc news some residents ran for their lives as they woke up to flames coming close to their homes. Sot tc 17 fadema Traore Oakland resident seconds more, i would have died. Take a look at this this is the fire from several blocks away it was intense. The complex was under renovation but two people had been living inside, a Security Guard and a woman. Nats 31 aden villaton Security Guard spanish the guard says late sunday night he heard a noise he checked it out but saw nothing, but a few hours later he awoke to the heat of the fire. This is his car which as you can see has a pole in the middle it fell slicing the windshield when the building collapsed. Nats i have lived there since 1955 alice ng lives right next door to the complex. Sot tc 1 02 they told me to get out