My gut tells me this fire may get more coverage in the MSM than the fires in Tennessee, just due to this being a left wing area.
It already is, plus because the media is right there.
Most networks prior to this could not have found TN on a map.
Virtually all the victims likely to be Progs (Progrssives) but nonetheless a tragedy of the first order.
There is no doubt that every single employee of the City of Oakland is in maximum Cover-Your-A$$ mode and destroy all evidence of malfeasance in office proceeds at breakneck pace.
Who will be the scapegoat?
Yep. Had this happened in East TN we would’t know about it for a couple of days.
That’s a bit unfair. Apples and oranges.
“Fire” may be the common denominator but the venue is not. Whereas TN is a wildfire of a more “natural” cause that gradually spread, this was a fire accident inside a single building with a “party” or something going on.
And we have heard about the wildfires in the south. As well as in the west the many times they happen out there.
It might but what it shows me is the kids are not very bright at choosing a “safe place”.
I don’t care for any of this. It was a party of drunk kids and some asshole lit it up.
Same thing happened in R.I. years ago.
Be careful who you know kids. Being cool doesn’t mean dying in a fire.
Possibly 40 dead is quite a story—that so far hasn’t got nearly the coverage of the TN fires.
This was pretty nasty; at the pressers they were asking about investigations going on at the building before the fire.
The TN fires are horrible. My daughter just came back from a class she took on the NC side a few weeks ago. She’s heard from he friends down there that it’s just horrible.
I don’t know why they both can’t be big stories.