Crews in Oakland knocked down a fire at an apartment building near the intersection of 60th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way Wednesday morning that left three construction workers injured including one critically, according to fire officials.
The Oakland Fire Department Twitter account posted that multiple units were responding to the incident at around 10:45 a.m. Assistance from the Oakland Police Department was requested for traffic control.Fire officials confirmed that the fire was under control just before 11 a.m. Fire crews requested ambulance assistance to transport at two patients to area hospitals with unspecified injuries.
Bowron said the three injured appeared to be construction workers doing renovation work on a vacant apartment in a four-unit building when the fire happened. One victim was in stable condition, one victim suffered minor injuries and the third victim suffered very critical injuries, Bowron said.The fire appeared to be a quick flash fire with high initial energy producing heavy smoke and breaking out some windows in the apartment. The fire did not extend to other parts of the building.
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