Firefighters in the East Bay were busy on Monday, battling flames that killed one person in an Oakland warehouse and injured four others in a nearby Berkeley fire.
Firefighters in the East Bay were busy on Monday, battling flames before finding a dead person's body in an Oakland warehouse. This just hours after the Berkeley Fire Department responded to a house fire that killed one person and sent three others to the hospital. In Oakland , Battalion Chief Anthony Sanders described the person as a "civilian" and didn't elaborate on who it was or how the person was found.
Sanders said the second-alarm fire in Oakland was reported just before 6 a.m. at 109th Avenue and Russet Street. Crews had it under control at 6:55 a.m.What caused the fire is under investigation. Sanders said that the building was abandoned and there were possibly "squatters or the unhoused living there." In nearby Berkeley, four people were injured at 4:35 a.m. at a home near Cedar and Ninth streets.
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