Regional clean-water regulators have told Oakland officials to remove charred debris from December’s Ghost Ship fire that the city dumped near San Leandro Bay and haul it to a landfill. That decision came without testing the material at the dump site, but regulators want the city to clean up the debris quickly and don’t plan on taking regulatory action, Dale Bower, of the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board Watershed Division, said Thursday.

A homeless man has hired a prominent civil rights attorney in advance of a likely lawsuit over treatment by Oakland police during his attempt to warn officers about an encounter with a suspect days before a fatal officer-involved shooting last week. In a statement Thursday, John Burris said he plans to file a claim against the city of Oakland on behalf of Patrick Reddic, 29, who says he was detained and threatened by officers he sought to warn about Jesse Ross Enjaian.