Plus a protected class of people running the place, which may have meant lax inspections from the city.
Had it been a Christian retreat, it would have been inspected right out of existence.
Plus the people at the rave were probably mostly high on something, making an escape even less likely.
Christians would have at least tried in earnest not to have it be a death trap.
Hey. It’s Oakland.
Actually, the fine City of Oakland has inspected only about one-third of the buildings in this neighborhood, which is part old single-family housing, part warehouses, part artist and performances spaces - it’s sort of like when things got started in the now hip district under the Brooklyn Bridge. And while the city inspectors have cited owners, they rarely seem to do any enforcement.
The owner of this place had been cited, the fire seems to have started in a refrigerator (which wasn’t even supposed to be there because it was not approved as a residential space) and he was stealing power from a building next door or from the city street lights, I don’t recall which. So he should have been shut down immediately.
Of course, the City of Oakland has a huge city staff and bureaucrats galore, but they don’t actually do anything. And this is the result.
Oakland is across the Bay from San Francisco; and it’s only redeeming value USED TO BE IT’S COLLEGES .. but the LEFT has ruined everything .. as usual.
Oakland is A TOTAL LIBERAL LAND.
Reminds me of Baltimore.