Posted on 05/14/2017 5:09:38 PM PDT by Steely Tom
I don’t think they own the property. They rented it and sublet it out...while the owners turned a blind eye.
That's exactly what I was wondering. I was reading an article about something related to northern California and the excuses people there make, and that reminded me about the Ghost Ship fire, and I wondered "hay, how is that situation developing."
A quick answer to that question is "not very rapidly."
The fire chief who was responsible for inspections during the time interval during which the Ghost Ship situation was permitted to develop announced her retirement back in March; her retirement benefits will total about $186K/yr. She "recently vested" into her Fire Chief pension (which only takes five years).
As a result, she will (one assumes) be allowed to swim away from the whole situation.
Not much is going on with landlord/founder Derick Almena, who has basically dropped out of sight.
For comparison, the owner of The Station nightclub, scene of the horrific Whitesnake fire back in 2003, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, as was the band's manager (who set up the pyrotechnics that lit off the inferno). When all was said and done, each served about four years, with the balance of their sentences suspended.
I'm doubtful any such sentence will fall on those responsible for the building and the Ghost Ship interior, in this case.
It was not up to code when it burned.
The Hood of Oakland has its fingerprints all over this.
Ca has its fingerprints all over this. Ca made it to where the poor had no place to live.
All while crying for the poor, they turned a blind eye to the poor.
When I was young in Ca my buddy basically ran a flop house to pay his mortgage.
One night the place almost burned because there was wine, women and candles involved, LOL
But it was no death trap substandard to code.
I do believe they rented the property from a Chinese woman maybe? Anyway they were the tendons and then they rented out spaces that were illegal
They held the lease from a slumlord. They in turn sublet and apparently made plenty of money given the outrageous rents in that area.
Great White
And I’m not on FB, but my guess would be they thought they were ultra-cool running an “artists colony”, despite it being a hovel. Everybody from them to the city and state were betting the worst would never happen, and turning a blind eye.
You win the thread!
No f**** given here.
Thanks for the correction, and good catch!
Sorry, Whitesnake. Should have checked more carefully.
They should be jailed for paying off fire inspectors
“didn’t they own that property?”
no. they rented it from the owner, who was yet another slumlord like themselves.
“they could have tens of millions of wrongful death lawsuits just waiting to pile up on them if they haven’t been filed already.”
unlikely. they don’t have a pot to piss in, so spending hundreds of thousands on lawsuits with a guaranteed return of zero isn’t going to happen.
This is California. Here, we have people who do things for symbolic value. Ordinarily, you’d be 100% correct.
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