Warehouse fire reaches 30 5:16 pm Sun

“Just give me some gloves. I’m ready to go”.

Mulè later told NBC News he was “100 percent certain” Wadsworth did not survive. Wadsworth is now listed by friends as missing.

Only three families of people missing in the blaze have so far been notified of the death of a loved one due to the arduous identification process, Kelly said.

“We anticipate that the number of victims. will increase”, Kelly said.

Another press conference is scheduled for Sunday at 11 a.m. PT.

Flowers are placed at the scene of a warehouse fire, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. Officials said they are continuing to search the charred debris from the fatal fire that ripped through a late-night dance par. We knew people were in there, and we were trying to get them out.

“I am still in disbelief, but I hope my friends who were in the Oakland Ghost Ship fire and are still unaccounted for are okay”, Joanna Blanche Lioce, a bartender at Bottom of the Hill, a popular music venue in San Francisco, wrote on Facebook. She said those numbers came from residents who said these people had not been seen since the fire erupted. They found three victims on the east side of the building. The sheriff’s department plans to begin releasing the names of the victim later today.

Fire battalion chief Melinda Drayton said the search was only 20 per cent complete, and Mr Kelly was certain the death toll would increase.

‘Bucket by bucket’ Firefighters searched the debris “bucket by bucket”, Ms Drayton said.

Bob Mulè, a member of a “24-hour artists’ collective” living inside the warehouse, said he scrambled to escape and then stopped to help a fellow resident named Pete Wadsworth.

Oakland officials say the space was cluttered with rugs, old sofas and other items when the fire tore through it during a dance party on Friday night.

Darin Ranelletti, of the Oakland Planning Department, said the city opened an investigation November 13 and an investigator went to the premises on November 17 but could not get inside.

The city had received complaints about “blight” and construction without permits and opened an investigation.

The death toll from a fire at a California warehouse where a rave party had been taking place rose to 30 on Sunday, as authorities were able to access more of the gutted, unstable building. “The roof had already caught and the flames were coming towards the door at an alarming rate”.

He said it took about 15 seconds to go from realizing there was a fire to seeing the room engulfed.

The building did not have a sprinkler system and fire-fighters did not hear any alarms when they arrived, Ms Deloach-Reed said. We have no idea how many people were in that building that night.

Oakland, a city of some 420,000, was once deemed largely unsafe but is now home to a more affluent population attracted by affordable rent and proximity to San Francisco.

“We lost one of our own”.

“If my brother’s there, I want to find him”, Dan Vega, whose younger brother, Alex, and his girlfriend are missing, told NBC Bay Area.