From the Daily Mail pics of the likely victims, they didn’t look like illegals.
So was this a bunch of violations by the owner, or did the owner not know that the renter was using the space improperly? It was only supposed to be a warehouse. People weren’t supposed to be living there.
Artsy fartsy watermelon green crowd more likely than illegals.
The whole place was illegal and California loves illegality. Who needs legal standards?
Too hip to obey fire codes.
“’We have another 60 plus percent to search, and we’re finding motor homes and trailers where people may have been living inside,’ he said. ‘We don’t even know if people are inside of those, we can’t get into those yet.’”
Uh, yeah, somehow I don’t that’s exactly to code ...
Looks like a rave.
I’d bet there were more than 100 people in there too.
Once those things get going, the people keep coming.
They were probably high, which impaired their ability to save themselves.
So called ‘liberals,’ living on other people’s property.
Did a search and found some pictures from before it burned... looked like a “Spaghetti Factory” style place with antiques and art everywhere, not like a hideout for illegals. Would be an interesting, crazy place to hang out if it had been properly equipped and up to code...if you’re the only one there and it wasn’t stuffed to the gills with people.
Turned into a flaming maze real quick... varnished picture frames, antiques, canvas, oil paint, dried out wood pallets, lots of fabric, and if there was a frame shop and active studios in it for artists then there’d be all kinds of flammable mediums and solvents and powders and sawdust. Probably not one thing there was treated with flame retardant and everything was tinder.
Place had over a hundred old pianos in it... those alone would be a huge fire hazard.
People were known to fall asleep on the sofas, cigarettes dangling from their lips as the snoozed.
In the 70s I went to a rock concert in Chicago with Mr. Mercat. It was a rickety old building. He would probably remember the name. It was somewhere famous and the band was famous. haha. And people had removed the chairs and were lighting candles and putting them on the floor and smoking dope. I went down to the lobby, found a pay phone and called the fire department. They showed up and although they did not shut down the concert they prevented anyone else from coming. Mr. M didn’t want to leave. We survived.
Before you say that since the chairs were removed it could not have been anywhere or anyone famous, you don’t know the scene in the 60s and 70s when we were going to these events. I was able to sneak into a Rolling Stones concert. I saw Roy Orbison in a little walk up room in Ft. Worth. I’m really old. LOL
City in expedited cover-up mode!
Doubtful there were many if any illegals. Raves mostly consist of kids from middle to upper class families.
2 UC Berkeley students missing after Oakland warehouse fire
Jessica Lynn and Cassandra Vogel
Th Daily Californian
Dec 3 2016
http://www.dailycal.org/2016/12/03/uc-berkeley-student-missing-oakland-warehouse-fire/
(note, a comment alleges that at least 3 UCB students actually died in the fire, not 2 as the article title claims)
Which code officials responsible for the compliance with the laws have unexplained deposits in their bank accounts, or own homes or vehicles they could not be expected to afford on their municipal wages?