{"id":17115,"date":"2016-12-12T04:46:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T04:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=17115"},"modified":"2016-12-12T04:47:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T04:47:30","slug":"atf-completes-investigation-at-ghost-ship-warehouse-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/atf-completes-investigation-at-ghost-ship-warehouse-in-oakland.html","title":{"rendered":"ATF Completes Investigation At Ghost Ship Warehouse In Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ATF Completes Investigation At Ghost Ship Warehouse In Oakland<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n

ATF Completes Investigation At Ghost Ship Warehouse In Oakland:-<\/strong> Federal officials said Sunday that investigators with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives completed their work at the site of Oakland\u2019s \u201cGhost Ship\u201d warehouse fire, which killed 36 on Dec. 2.<\/span><\/p>\n

Investigators have scheduled a new conference for 11 a.m. on Tuesday at 1605 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Oakland to share where they are in the investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n

A federal investigator said on Friday that a refrigerator has been ruled out as the cause of the fire at the warehouse at 1315 31st Ave. in Oakland\u2019s Fruitvale district.<\/span><\/p>\n

Special Agent in Charge Jill Snyder with the San Francisco office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said investigators are looking at other electrical items as the possible ignition source for the blaze but haven\u2019t reached any conclusions yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Snyder said electrical engineers and other fire investigators are looking at \u201ceverything that\u2019s electrical\u201d but haven\u2019t determined that something electrical caused the blaze.<\/span><\/p>\n

Snyder said on Tuesday that a refrigerator near the back of the building was a possible ignition source but that it had not been conclusively determined.<\/span><\/p>\n

She said Friday that, \u201cThe refrigerator was in the area of the origin but it did not cause the fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Snyder said investigators still don\u2019t think the fire was started intentionally and added that investigators may rule that the cause is undetermined.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat means that we do not without question know what the source of ignition was for the fire,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Electrical items that investigators are looking at include outlets and power cords, Snyder said.<\/span><\/p>\n

A forensic mapping team arrived at the fire site Friday to help investigators document the scene and prepare a diagram, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The mapping effort will take about three days and then investigators will spend another day analyzing the results, Snyder said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Family members and friends of those who were killed in the fire are continuing to come to the burned warehouse to see where their loved ones spent their final moments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Just before Snyder held the news conference, Oakland police and fire chaplain Jayson Landeza took several family members to the grizzly site.\u00a0 They looked intently at the burned out warehouse and one woman sobbed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:- http:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2016\/12\/11\/atf-completes-investigation-at-ghost-ship-warehouse-in-oakland\/<\/span><\/div>\n

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