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Now that has resulted in this fire that's now 3:35 into this. still very much an active scene and could go on for quite some time. they did manage to put out the fire on the hillside near the facility in crockett. but the tanks themselves are still burning. there were three tanks involved. two were basically heempty. the third one had about 160,000 gallons. >> we should let you know a news conference is about to happen any moment now. we're keeping our eye on that. on the right side of your screen, you can see the podium over the facility. you can see the smoke still rising, it looks a little ...

Few minutes which should be an encouraging sign. we anticipate literally any moment now to get an update from officials at the scene. >> if you take a look at the aerial, wider perspective on the left, it tells a similar story. certainly not even much smoke to be seen in that shot. although, you can see the carquinez bridge really well in that shot as well. you can see no traffic going by. you see the hell cop tefr, a lot of helicopter runs dropping retardant over the last couple hours. right now we're seeing water being put on what was burning there, one of the tanks. they definitely want to ...

>> we just saw one right now. abc 7 news at 6:00 begins now. >> now from abc 7, live breaking news. what's happened is we have at least two tanks releasing chemicals that are burning. >> thick black smoke fills the air in the east bay as something causes a fire to break out at a tank farm. people have been told to stay indoors. >> calls started coming in around 2:00 of an explosion and fire at the new star refinery. interstate 80 which runs next to the refinery was shut down. >> health officials quickly issued a hazardous materials emergency and issued a shelter in place. the health threat...

Fire. nustar, at least these tanks contain ethanol. this is a huge company that deals with a lot of different chemicals and gasoline and oil around the country. our melanie woodrow reported they have 74 facilities. a fairly large company. this facility at this moment they were storing ethanol in these tanks. we're not sure what else, if anything else, because some of the ethanol burns carbon dioxide. we don't know what else may have been burning and going into the air. >> brand new information coming down from contra costa fire. this has been going back and for forth. nustar has reported there...

All these facilities have their o firefighting efforts before calling city and county which then race to the scene as well. you're looking at the left side of your screen. i-80 will be closed until at least 11:30 in both directions from highway 4 to the carquinez bridge. that's a big area that will be out of commission for commuters all night tonight. >> in fact, we're looking at a stretch of freeway where they're diverting traffic off of i-80. you can get on 4, but can't get on i-80 towards the scene of the fire. >> if you look to the right of your screen and see the tank that's collapsed and...