Officials with the city of Oakland and the American Red Cross are scrambling to try to make shelter arrangements for 37 people who were displaced by a fire at a homeless camp near Interstate Highway 880 in Oakland early this morning, a city official said.
Joe DeVries, an assistant to City Administrator Sabrina Landreth who works on homeless issues, said the Red Cross typically provides replacement tents for homeless people who lose their tents in fires but he said that might not happen in this case.
