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Information from contra costa fire. they say there are approximately 42 units at nustar firefighting this fire. they come from all sorts of agencies, count fire, crockett fire department, richmond, cal fire and even east bay regional park district. also, there is what we call the petrol chemical mutual aid association. they're on the scene with specialized resources working under that unified command they have to control this incident. a serious situation with response units from chevron, shell, marathon, phillips, they all work in that area. they all have incidents from time to time and they ...

Bumper-to-bumper traffic. only 23 minutes from where the fire is burning on 1290 san pablo avenue. we're hear with one of the residents who said he did hear the explosion and he described it as an earthquake and said it was like a boom. what else did you hear? >> that was all that i heard until i came out in the front of my house. i saw the smoke coming up and i said, it must have been an explosion. >> he says he saw the smoke coming up and he said this might be an explosion. >> tell me your name again. >> roscoe cooper. >> reporter: thank you very much. did you smell anything in the air? >> n...

Blast or catching fire. they were successful in that regard. as you can tell now, look on the left, they've been spraying non-stop foam and flame retardant there. it looks like it's been snowing there, completely covering that part of the facility. you see two collapsed tankers on the middle of your screen. all this foam that they continue to pour onto what is left of this fire. >> you don't want to tune away right now. we understand the press conference is about to start in two minutes, about one minute at this point. we have our live feed and we will go to it as soon as it happens to get the...

At that point it will no longer be a concern for the adjacent tanks that are right now threatened by fire. those threatened tanks, we'll continue to cool those with water in an attempt to keep them from becoming involved in the fire. we have about 42 firefighting units on scene and a lot of support personnel beyond that. i would estimate that we have close to 200 people on scene all told to manage this incident. the fire jurisdictions that are involved, i've already mentioned law enforcement, california highway patrol and the sheriff's office. the fire jurisdictions involved are my organizatio...

The question was regarding the earthquake last night at around 10:30 p.m. i believe in pleasant hill. it was a 4.5 or 4.7 earthquake and whether that might be related to this. at this point it would be purely conjecture. what i can say about that and the investigation of the fire is that in the last few minutes the decision has been made by the incident commanders to bring in the con fire fire investigation unit and they've begun their work to investigate the fire. they won't be able to do all of it until we get the fire contained and ultimately out, but the con fire fire investigation unit wi...