Oakland warehouse was a cluttered death trap filled with pianos, RVs but no fire sprinklers former r

Los Angeles Times ^ | December 3, 2016 | By Liam Dillon, Ben Poston, David Zahniser and Laura J. NelsonLiam Dillon, Ben Poston, & others

[libstripper]

Full title:

Oakland warehouse was a cluttered ‘death trap’ filled with pianos, RVs, but no fire sprinklers, former residents say

Excerpt:

The Oakland warehouse where at least nine people were killed at a late-night concert was a deadly blaze waiting to happen.

People who previously lived there recalled a building that lacked fire sprinklers and had a staircase partly made of wooden pallets. Partygoers recalled a rabbit warren of rooms crammed with belongings — pianos, organs, antique furniture, doors and half-finished sculptures.

[BunnySlippers]

The Daily Mail was once only a UK paper. They now have two versions, UK & USA. The hired a large uS staff and opened their offices in NYC.

[justlurking]

Take a close look at the right edge of this image:

Is that old electrical wiring?

[null and void]

Ah. Still NYC is a full continent away and they have better coverage, by any measure, than the LA Times in the same state.

[Drew68]

There is no one with any assets worth going after involved, is my take.

Apparently, there was an absentee landlord, an elderly Vietnamese man, whose daughter dropped by once a month to collect the rent. The residents were instructed to tell her that they only worked, not lived there.

Hope he's got a good lawyer.

[Drew68]

looks like extension cords were used as electrical wiring as well

I read the extension cords were surreptitiously hooked up to an adjacent structure, stealing power.

[arl295]

The owner of the building, tweeted yesterday that he was saddened about his loss of his stuff, not a single word about the 9+ people that died in his death trap of a building. People were outraged against him, even a “friend” that responded that he told him about his safety issues his building had for many months and he ignored him.

The owner is a whack job who was more concerned over his “art” then the safety and death of the people who were in his building. I don’t think the locals are to blame, the owner is to blame 100% for what happened. Local authorities can only do so much and is a process. He was served with violation notices, he just did nothing to correct the problems.

[jimbug]

In reality its just a bunch of hippy vagrants that need a place to squat for almost no money so they can smoke dope and create junk “art” out of twisted metal and garbage.

My guess is that many of the dead were 'off the grid' and will be impossible to identify.

[FreedomPoster]

OMG! That looks like ancient cloth Romex. That stuff is so old the insulation crumbles off if you look at it.

[arl295]

I thought so myself, but it kind of looks like speaker/XLR wiring to me. Maybe they had a sound system in this place? I don’t know

If it is being used as electrical wiring, it doesn’t look like it would pass code.

[arl295]

The liberal way of wiring haha

Would not surprise me though

[CodeToad]

The images show the cluttered and disorganized mind of a left.

[Drew68]

The owner is a whack job who was more concerned over his “art” then the safety and death of the people who were in his building.

Derick Ion's Facebook Page

Before he deletes it:

"Confirmed. 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."

[Balding_Eagle]

This happened before midnight.

[justlurking]

OMG! That looks like ancient cloth Romex. That stuff is so old the insulation crumbles off if you look at it.

That's what I thought it was, too. Here's a close-up picture:

[NohSpinZone]

And now watch the cronies in government step in, go way overboard, and create a bunch of unintended consequences of their new rules for law-abiding businesses.

[patriot08]

He [Isis spokesman] gave specifics on how to attack Westerners and them feel insecure; "Hunt them wherever they may be. Turn their worldly life into fear and fire. .. "

http://www.cnn.com/2014/09/22/world/meast/isis-threatens-west/

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Excluding this fire perhaps..

Too many unusual fires. Too many unusual places.

This is such an easy way to strike fear into the hearts of Americans.

Fires cause massive death and destruction, easy to start, and the chance of being caught is small..

[arl295]

Could be, you could never know in these old buildings

Would not surprise me if the place had Zinsco or Federal Pacific circuit breakers either, so a short or overload would have never tripped the breaker in the first place

Plus you can see extension cords hanging down for power, extension cords are big no no in commercial buildings like a warehouse and would get you flagged on inspection.

[arl295]

They have to blame somebody right?

So they are going to blame innocent law abiding citizens for this

Sounds familiar right? Anytime a terrorist nut knifes somebody, the knee jerk liberal response is always “more gun control”....

[GSWarrior]

Better coverage than the San Francisco chronicle or Oakland Times, as well

[BenLurkin]

Good catch!