Survivors Recount 'Wall of Fire' at Oakland Warehouse Blaze Posted today at 4:00pm - Survivors of the deadly fire at an Oakland, California, warehouse that killed at least 36 people recall waking up to a "wall of fire" and billowing smoke so powerful that it opened a window, letting in oxygen that apparently added fuel to the blaze. Nikki Kelber, a resident of the warehouse that housed artist studios, said she was asleep Friday night and "woke up to smoke and an entire wall of fire." "I started walking toward the front door and I called for help and I don’t know that anybody could hear me with the music," Kelber said. "Minutes later, the power went out, so everyone who was inside was trapped in the dark." Authorities continued Monday to search for bodies from the fire that was called in to the Oakland Fire Department at 11:32 p.m. Friday. A dance party was going on in the building at the time the blaze began. Among the victims whose bodies have been found so far, some were teens. Another survivor, Carmen Brito, described "15 feet of flames literally." She recalled "just being hit in the face by black smoke that I was immediately blinded by and made my eyes water." "I couldn’t breathe, and [the smoke] was so strong that it actually opened my window, which then brought all this oxygen into the space, which just fueled it and made it worse, and that’s when the power went out," Brito said. Brito remembered "getting outside and realizing that there are no fire trucks here yet, there was nobody here." |
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