{"id":469201,"date":"2026-09-19T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469201\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T16:52:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:52:20","slug":"homeless-man-found-safe-following-alameda-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/469201\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeless Man Found Safe Following Alameda Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A homeless man who was known to sleep in the vacant, two-story building on the former Alameda Naval Air Station that burned down Thursday morning has been located and he was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2026\/09\/17\/authorities-search-for-possible-homeless-victim-in-alameda-point-warehouse-fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fire early Thursday<\/a> destroyed an empty, derelict building \u2014 which was initially reported to be a warehouse but, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kron4.com\/news\/bay-area\/homeless-man-missing-from-alameda-point-fire-found-safe\/?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">photos on KRON4<\/a>, appears to have been a barracks or other sort of former military building on the base.<\/p>\n<p>The building stood on Rainbow Court, about a block from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.almanacbeer.com\/?ref=sfist.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Almanac Beer Co<\/a>. Neighbors informed firefighters that a homeless man often stayed in the structure, and a search was underway for any possible remains after the fire was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>Per KRON4, the man was found safe, and no other person was found on the site. <\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second fire at a derelict building on the former Naval Air Station in four years, as KRON4 notes, with another structure about a block away having burned down in July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Previously: <a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2026\/09\/17\/authorities-search-for-possible-homeless-victim-in-alameda-point-warehouse-fire\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Authorities Search For Possible Homeless Victim In Alameda Point Warehouse Fire<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homeless man who was known to sleep in the vacant, two-story building on the former Alameda Naval&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-469201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}