The site of the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland, where 36 people died in a 2016 fire, has been acquired by a community development organization.
For more than two years, the gray converted warehouse — where a massive fire killed at least 36 people Friday night — had been on Oakland officials’ radar., but a likely electrical overload filled the warehouse with smoke and flames that quickly trapped the partygoers inside. The building had been illegally converted into a live-work space and lacked functioning exits and fire extinguishers. A jumble of extension cords, rugs, old sofas and other flammable items crammed the structure.
Prosecutors charged Derick Almena, the master tenant on the lease who also lived in the building with his wife and children, and resident Max Harris with the deaths. A juryand served the rest of his sentence under home arrest.The fire exposed flaws in Oakland’s fire inspections, and the
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