One person found dead in Oakland warehouse fire, another dies in Berkeley house fire
OAKLAND, Calif. - 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. Police on scene said the body was so badly burned they could not determine a gender at this time.
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, one person and a pet died, while three other people were injured at 4:35 a.m. at a home near Cedar and Ninth streets.
BFD Fire Chief David Sprague said that crews went up to the roof and cut a hole to let the heat and smoke out.
By 6 a.m., the fire was at the mop-up stage.