Posted on 12/04/2016 9:16:47 AM PST by ColdOne
full title......................Fury at the man behind illegal artist enclave where up to 33 died in fire: Organizer of 'death trap' Oakland commune makes self-pitying statement complaining that 'everything I worked for is gone' ................Derick Ion Almena has been identified as the operator of the Ghost Ship venue and Satya Yuga Art Collective where a fire broke out Friday night He wrote: 'Everything I worked so hard for is gone. Blessed that my children and Micah were at a hotel safe and sound' 'It's as if I have awoken from a dream filled with opulence and hope.... to be standing now in poverty of self worth,' he continued Officials said at least nine people died in the massive fire that was held in the Oakland warehouse Fire Chief Teresa Deloche-Reed said that at least another 24 people are still unaccounted Officials say there was no sprinkler system in the two-story building and firefighters saw no evidence that smoke detectors were activated during the blaze City officials also revealed that the warehouse had no permits that allowed for a party to be held or for residential occupation Crews found flames on three sides of building when they arrived to scene after fire started around 11.30p
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No, if you are hippie, no law. That place is complete lawless. Scary to go.
Not a single concern for the dead. That’s liberalism for you.
When I grow up I want to be an illegal artist and live in an enclave.
Yes. Obamacare frees you up to do that! At least that’s what San Fran Nan told everyone.
What a narcissistic piece of trash.
Not a word about all those died horrific deaths in that fire. Just whining and moaning about his loss.
But....There are plenty of spaces that rent to artists that are illegal. There are several in my city that I personally know and have visited or worked in.
The photographs of the interior of this hole scream one word, “Firetrap”.
Yup. She wants you to pay them to do nothing.
Yep. A old warehouse filled with a maze of highly flammable decor, not one smoke detector, sprinkler, exit sign, etc. in sight. Apparently only one homemade pallet stair case. The people to escape that death trap are really lucky.
The City of Oakland bears much responsibility. City officials were well aware that this inherently unsafe building was being used as a residence and a site for big parties or “raves”. For whatever political reason, these officials refuse to enforce the law. The building was neither vacated nor sealed. It will be interesting to see in the coming lawsuits just who was making money and who was receiving “political donations”.
Apparently, the place was owned by an elderly Vietnamese man. His daughter would show up once a month to collect the rent and residents were instructed to tell her they only worked, not lived there. At one point electricity was illegally pilfered via extension cords from an adjacent structure.
“Apparently, the place was owned by an elderly Vietnamese man. His daughter would show up once a month to collect the rent and residents were instructed to tell her they only worked, not lived there. At one point electricity was illegally pilfered via extension cords from an adjacent structure. “
Under the law, he’s the one who’s really on the hook here. But where has the city ( and the Fire Department for sure) been? I own a commercial building in the SF Bay Area and I can tell you that I routinely get inspections from the Fire Department in the city where the property is located, and so do each of my tenants individually.
Oh my God. Yeah, that's what you say to the parents of the kids who died in your warehouse. Damn...
http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/derick-ion-micah-allison-facebook-post-ghost-ship-fire/
This guy, Derick Ion and his wife, Micah, are a couple of disturbed people.
Everybody wanders about their future method of dying. Fire has got to the worst.
I’m not understanding why 2-3 days after the fire a mere 20% of the building has been searched. Which means 24 corpses have been found in a mere 20% of the building. It doesn’t seem all that large a building.
I can’t recall an event here in the 45 years I’ve been out here something killed 24 people, the notable exception being the collapse of the Nimitz Freeway during the 1989 earthquake.
“There are plenty of spaces that rent to artists that are illegal.”
Back when Baltimore was selling row houses for a dollar, an artist friend of mine bought what had been a small warehouse that had been converted to a home. He gutted it back to the warehouse dimensions, except for a small part he kept as “living quarters”, to satisfy the terms of sale, and used the rest as a studio for his larger projects. He also rented out studio space. He never got it up to code, and the houses on either side remained abandoned, so he knew it was just a matter of time before a fire did the urban renewal that the city didn’t want to do.
He eventually moved out because of the regular break-ins and squatters who moved in when he went somewhere to teach workshops or do installations.
In fairness, he may not have known at the time of the tweet that anyone died in the fire.
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