History Of The 1906 San Francisco Earthquake

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December 2, 2016 in Oakland, California a fire broke out in a warehouse known as Ghost Ship. At that time they were hosting a concert that had artists from the house music record label 100 percent silk. 36 people were killed in that fire and it is said that is was the deadliest fire ever in the history of Oakland. It was the deadliest in California since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Nobody knows exactly what caused the fire but it was such a bad warehouse because of all the safety hazards and that’s why it was abandoned.
The founder Derick Ion Almena didn’t know there were people there. It is said that people might have been living there illegally. The initial reaction people had was they thought a refrigerator fire caused it but it wasn’t.

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