Firefighters battle West Oakland encampment blaze
At 1:15 p.m., Oakland Fire Department firefighters responded to reports of the blaze at West Grand Avenue and Wood Street, Oakland Fire battalion chief Frank Tijiboy said.
The fire involved three recreational vehicles, two passenger vehicles and a flatbed truck, and drew response from eighteen firefighters and a battalion chief aboard three fire engines and a truck, Oakland Fire spokesman Michael Hunt said. Arriving firefighters heard from encampment residents that they thought all vehicles’ occupants had managed to get out, but a person’s body was later found inside one of the recreational vehicles, Tijiboy said. The fire was placed under control around 2 p.m.
Prior encampment fire responses were hampered by limited access to water, with firefighters forced to lay nearly 500 feet of hose from a hydrant at 26th and Wood streets in order to reach inside the encampment. At least five people were displaced by the blaze, and Red Cross Bay Area staff were not yet at the scene as of 2:30 p.m. There were no immediate reports of property damage estimates.
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