Firefighters on Saturday fought the 5-alarm fire in home warehouse in San Jose, California, the San Jose Fire Department said. Crowds have gathered to watch in parking lot when hell spewed massive column of smoke in air.
thirty fire divisions made up of of 100 firefighters were on hand battle flame, reports CBS San Francisco. SJFD got control of The fire broke out around 11:45 p.m. local time, according to CBS San Francisco.
No injuries were reported to employees, customers, or firefighters, according to CBS San Francisco. Roof of Home Depot basically collapsed on Saturday.
SJFD Battalion Commander Brad Cloutier said on Saturday that the original goal was to evacuate building. Cloutier said he was putting out fire turned out to be difficult for several reasons, including windy conditions and materials inside store.
“Paint, paint thinner, lumber, all kinds of of flammable materials plastic deck chairs, things that burn quite easily and a lot of them and big store – So challenges as for that, he said, according to CBS San Francisco. “Besides, the wind was a bit strong this afternoon, as you saw when you got here.”
Cloutier said fire crews were also sent south of in fire in embers scattered by the wind caused any nearby homes ignite.
Nearest Animal Hospital also must be evacuated, SJFD said. Several bystanders helped evacuate the animals.
“Actually we were heading to the Oakridge mall to buy some tea and my husband said let’s go check out and see if we can help with animals. So we went inside and we just started opening all the doors,” Evelyn Skoff told CBS in San Francisco. – We took shopping center out to back and there were a lot of people out there just help us to collect these animals, so it was really cool to see all the teamwork.”
“I also helped with her. We went around and opened all the cages to make sure they received out in time,” Tatum Sullivan told CBS San Francisco.
fire did not spread to the veterinary clinic, but building According to CBS in San Francisco, they were indeed affected by smoke and water.
fire was so intense that it showed up on National Weather Service radar.
cause of in fire remains under investigation.
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