Updated: Dec. 5, 11:00 a.m. ET
As investigators continue the painstaking process of picking through the rubble of a warehouse in Oakland that erupted into fire on Friday night during an underground dance party, at a briefing on Monday morning (Dec. 5), Alameda County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Deputy Tya Modste said the death toll in the incident had climbed to 36.
“We have located and recovered 36 victims,” Modste said. “Of the 36, 11 have been positively identified and their family members have been appropriately identified,” she said. The list of names of the dead was not updated at the press conference.
|Identified where fire started
Oakland Fire Department spokesperson Chief Teresa DeLoach Reed added that her department was asked by the ATF and local investigators to halt their recovery work in the back of the building at 10 p.m. PT on Sunday based on their belief that they have identified the section of the building where the fire started. That investigative team was expected to begin their probe of the suspected area on Monday morning in an effort to determine the origin of the deadly blaze.
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