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Tobacco, firearms, federal agents, walk into the warehouse now that it's safe and secure. their focus, an area on a back wall where they say there were a lot of appliances. off camera, one of the residents said to me he felt like that fire may have started on the first floor in that area. that's what we'll look into and hopefully we'll learn more when they come back out. >> i know you're learning more about previous complaints regarding the warehouse. what details have you uncovered? >> reporter: they're just stacking up. it goes back in time. there are things such as pests inside and they had...

Believed the fire had started to that back wall. so what they think happens is the fire starts in the first floor, spreads to the second floor, and it's in the roof, and the roof collapses on the people that are inside there, but i spoke to somebody with the sheriff's department this morning, who said that basically, you take two inhalations of air that is so ultra-heated inside there, and probably everybody passed out well before they even knew what was happening. so most of the people probably died in there from smoke inhalation. they're trying to determine what caused the fire. there's a lo...

On the fact that we have fire damage all the way through to the roof on the back wall, in the rafters, on the steel beams, and until we have an absolute, i don't even want to speculate on whether it was the first or second floor. [ inaudible ] no. >> so again we'll certainly provide more information, but we would like to really have atf on board, and have that opportunity to determine causes, areas, things like that. we're going to conclude this portion of our media briefing. throughout the day we will continue to provide information to you. we'll send out a media availability for the next tim...

Investigative team. they have at this point essentially identified the origin of the fire and do believe now it is in the back of the warehouse near the back wall that it probably started somewhere in that first floor or the makeshift colony of residences and work spaces were cluttered together in a labyrinth maze-like structure and want to quarantine the area but that work will not happen until they deem this structure safe. that's work going on right now and you mentioned the criminal investigative team. they're on scene here as well working with state and local officials here as this contin...

Namely, first of all, they think they've identified the location where the fire may have started. they've isolated an area towards the back of the warehouse near the back wall. they believe it is possible that fire started on the first floor near that back wall, spread up to the second floor, then to the roof. of course the roof collapse, a major element of what happened that night when 36 people so far have been confirmed dead. 11, meanwhile, have been identified. next of kin notifications are ongoing as the process of recovery continues. it is an arduous, slow process. we thought maybe there...