Recovery begins at Tracy medical products warehouse destroyed by blaze last week

FIREFIGHTERS CONTINUED MAKING PROGRESS Sunday at the Medline warehouse fire in Tracy, where recovery operations began shifting toward gaining access to remaining hot spots inside the destroyed facility, according to an update from the South San Joaquin County Fire Authority.

An excavation company began work Sunday morning removing portions of the facility’s exterior walls, the agency said in an update early that afternoon. The work is expected to give firefighters better access to smoldering areas that remained inside the building.