Families affected by a large fire in Oakland on Friday were trying to assess the damage and figure out where they'll stay for the next few months.
The four-alarm fire severely damaged five homes and a few of those are total losses.Joanna Roberts' one-bedroom cottage in the back of her property was burned to the ground. Two tenants who lived there survived but lost a cat along with their possessions."This is more than just shelter, this is memories," Roberts said."Tai asked me if I was going to rebuild.
He said since there weren't enough firefighters in the first few minutes of the fire, he turned from a homeowner to a volunteer firefighter. " I'm giving you the hose. Knock down the fire if you use this hose. So I'm grabbing that hose here and I'm dragging it as far as I can -- literally standing here in these Crocs and trying to use that hose to knock down the fire on that building," Gilmete said.Neighbors said this is the second time since October of 2020 a fire broke out in the same area.
Investigators believed a small homeless encampment in the vicinity of Interstate 580 and 35th Avenue started the fire two years ago. Even though firefighters were still investigating Friday's blaze, neighbors suspected the same cause. "It's frustrating because, since the last fire, nothing has been done," said fire survivor Jeremiah Burks."That sucks. But, you know, nobody died," Gilmete said.Da Lin is an award-winning journalist at KPIX 5 News. He joined KPIX 5 in 2012, but has been reporting the news in the Bay Area since 2007.
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