Two-Alarm Blaze Sends CA Firefighter to Hospital

A two-alarm fire roared through a multi-tenant house early Tuesday morning, injuring a firefighter and leaving all nine residents displaced, fire officials said.

The fire burned for nearly two hours after breaking out around 3:15 a.m. in the two-story building at 30th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland Fire spokesman Michael Hunt said. None of the residents were injured.

Fire officials originally reported that only two people were displaced, but those two were the only two who needed help from the Red Cross to find housing,” Battalion Chief Heather Mozdean said. The other seven had relatives or friends who were able to provide temporary housing, she said.

All nine were out of the house when crews arrived.

“A guy who was a resident there woke up and heard the crackling,” Mozdean said. “He woke up the others, and they were all out of there early.”

Crews also reunited one of the residents with two cinjureats that went missing during the blaze.

The firefighter suffered a hand injury and went by ambulance to a hospital, Hunt said.

The building’s roof collapsed in the fire, and firefighters were unable to get into the building and fought it defensively. Fire crews brought the blaze under control by about 5:30 a.m.

It was not known immediately what caused the fire. Mozdean said it began in an outside courtyard area in the middle of the building.

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