All right. Now I think we have .
Jane, we're going to send it back out to you.
What are you learning? What's te
latest that you're hearing out there?
All right. Say, I just wanted to
give you in real time this information
that we are learning about the cause,
a potential cause of the fire.
I talked to one of the foreman.
Keep in mind, there are about 200 workers
at any given time on these site.
A building, a a building.
BI talked to one of the four meo
allowed me to speak to one of hs
workers who witnessed what happd
here around 9:00 o'clock this morning.
As Phil pans over to our shot,
our vantage point here from Fairview,
right across from the fire.
So the insulation in a truck,
that material is.
Is ignited with a machine,
so they had finished spraying the ceiling
of a first floor unit and whater
ignited in the truck this machi.
It had started the fire,
so it's it's like Styrofoam andt
dries and that machine had alrey
had just sprayed the ceiling.
That machine caught fire.
It's in a truck that's pulled
behind like a trailer,
a box trailer about 20 by 7.
So imagine like a small moving truck and
again starting around 9:00 this morning,
so that ignited this fire and
then it quickly.
Went into the second floor.
That same witness told me that a
crane operator was in in the cr,
but he was rescued and lifted from out
of that position about 20 minutes ago.
That is the latest as far as the
details of what happened earlier
this morning with this fire.
Right now you can still see Fairview Rd.
obviously closed with dozens of units.
Hazmat, Fire Rescue,
all of these trucks on scene,
but from our vantage point now
we are getting a little bit of a
clearing as far as the smoke go,
not as Gray and thick here.
People are beginning to at least
take off their masks because it
was really tough breathing out
here and the wind is a little bt
on the calmer side here as well.
We are planning to go to that ma
presser here down Barkley Downs and Fairview.
In a couple of minutes.
So we will be changing position.
By the way, they are moving us constantly,
so forgive me if we,
if we're our shots,
a little rough because they are
trying to keep us out of harm's.
As this thing keeps on fluctuat.
But for now,
this is our shot here on Fairview Rd.
At Assembly Street.
So let me ask you, we had someone message
us at the beginning of our broat
that they watched someone that was on
a crane get down safely and rese
kind of at the beginning of all this.
But now we're having people sens
tweets that someone, I'm guessing someone
else now is stuck on a crane th.
You guys can see from your vante
point that they're trying to re.
Is that right? What we're understanding,
you said someone else told you t
there was someone stuck on a cr,
Is that right?
Yeah. My understanding was there
were only one crane operator and
that person was rescued 20 minutes ago,
so perhaps there were more peop.
Earlier this morning, a few hours ago
and they were immediately lifte.
But there was one person liftedf
a crane about 2025 minutes ago.
Their condition As far as we knw
he seems to be unharmed but we e
not spoken to that person and.
We don't, we do not know the
extent of any injuries, if at a.
And as Ben said, of course we're just
trying to bring our viewers they
latest information as it unfold.
And until it probably be a while
and and maybe this press confer,
until we know for sure exactly what happened,
it'll take investigators a while to to
figure out for sure what started this fire
and to bring everybody up to sp.
Per James reporting,
this thing broke out around
9:00 o'clock this morning.
And it was not too, too far after that,
that the entire city of Charlote
became transfixed with this,
because no matter where you wer,
you could see the black smoke.
I was driving back in.
I'd been out on a shoot,
driving back in on on Tryon,
and I could see the black smoke,
and then eventually had the
number of people text me.
We had people in office
buildings in Uptown Charlotte,
miles away,
watching this unfold too,
because the smoke was was
that heavy and that dark
coming out of this building.