The reason for the delay: the roof collapsed onto the second floor, which then collapsed onto the first floor. So, it's going to take a while to remove all the debris and search it.
If you look at pix of that building, it appears to me that it is right about 40’ x 100’ using cars to estimate measurement of linear wall feet.
As the bldg was a warehouse, it would not surprise me to find that the “second floor” was strictly a storage loft. That’s why there was no “real” staircase to the 2nd floor, only a pile of pallets. Hence, the 2nd floor sq footage was not permitted for anything but storage and thus not reflected in public records wrt sq footage.
Photobucket took a crap again so I can’t post a pix.
Aerial view here: http://www.breakingnews.com/topic/fruitvale-oakland-ca-us/
These must be utterly horrific things to be caught in.
“According to an article: 4000 square feet. But, I don’t know if that’s both the first and second floor, or just the first floor.”
If you look at the pictures of the building, I think you would come to conclusion that the area inside the walls is probably 4,000 sf. So with a second floor and a mezzanine, it’s probably closer to 10,000 sf of interior floor space.