Fire that started from lithium battery at Port of Oakland ‘fully extinguished’

Bay City News
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(BCN) — A fire in a facility at the Port of Oakland Sunday afternoon that sent black smoke over the San Francisco Bay was fully extinguished by 4:30 p.m., a spokesman for the fire department said.

“The fire was in a lithium battery at the port, on Seventh Street,” said Michael Hunt, a spokesman for the Oakland Fire Department.

A fire broke out at the Port of Oakland on Sunday afternoon (Citizen App).
A fire broke out at the Port of Oakland on Sunday afternoon (Citizen App).

The department posted a photo of the billowing smoke on social media. The fire was reported around 3 p.m. and took about an hour to get under control, Hunt said.

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