A fire erupted in a warehouse in Oakland California where authorities fear as many as 40 people have likely been killed. According to most media reports there was a party or gathering at the venue when the fire broke out. A horrible inferno ensued.
However, what MSM doesn’t provide is an accurate context or backstory. Such context first begins with noting the location, Oakland California – the epicenter of some of the most recent and violent left-wing political stories. Examples include the Occupy Wall Street ideologues and the last seven years of liberal riots and protests.
It does not take a deep-dive of research to identify the warehouse was illegal use of a non-residential building to house a communal artistic alt-left group. Accepting reality in no way intends to lessen the sorrow and horrific tragedy; however, there is a particular irony in the outcome of an affiliated enterprise rebuking the very tenets of regulation and safety compliance that are specifically in place to prevent such an outcome.
According to broadcast interviews many of the missing (presumed dead) housing participants and party attendees are non-U.S. nationals.

BREAKING: California official says city started investigating whether people lived in warehouse illegally weeks before deadly fire.

— The Associated Press (@AP) December 3, 2016

The venue itself was an unlawful use of a building as a domicile. Property records indicate the building is owned by a trust managed by Chor N. Ng of Oakland. In addition, a self-constructed, non-permitted, interior second floor and staircase was built within the building, presumably by the occupants.

(Via Daily Mail) People who had visited the Oakland warehouse artist collective gutted by a massive fire early Saturday morning said they knew it was a deathtrap waiting to happen as at least nine people have been confirmed dead and dozens are still missing.

Fire Chief Teresa Deloche-Reed said that nine people are dead and at least another 25 people are unaccounted for after the deadly blaze started around 11:30pm Friday in the 1300 block of 31st Avenue during an event featuring musician Golden Donna’s 100% Silk West Coast tour.

‘We still have to do a more thorough search of the building and we don’t know the potential number of other victims,’ Deloche-Reed said. ‘In my career of 30 years, I haven’t experienced something of this magnitude.’

She added that there was no sprinkler system and that firefighters saw no evidence that smoke detectors were activated during the blaze inside the two-story building that is known as an artists enclave called The Oakland Ghost Ship.

The building owner had been cited by the city just last month and an investigation into whether the interior of the structure was illegal was underway.

Deloach-Reed said that fire crews found a ‘makeshift stairwell’ between the first and second floor and that most people who died were on the second floor of the building.

She said that when fire crews first entered the building to fight the blaze, they were impeded by a massive amount of clutter that included furniture, art and several mannequins.

‘It filled end to end with furniture, whatnot, collections,’ Deloach-Reed said. ‘It was like a maze almost.’ (read more)