OAKLAND — A hearth in a facility on the Port of Oakland Sunday afternoon that despatched black smoke over the San Francisco Bay was totally extinguished by 4:30 p.m., a spokesman for the fireplace division mentioned.
“The hearth was in a lithium battery on the port, on Seventh Road,” mentioned Michael Hunt, a spokesman for the Oakland Fireplace Division.
The division posted a photograph of the billowing smoke on social media.
The hearth was reported round 3 p.m. and took about an hour to get beneath management, Hunt mentioned.
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