Ghost Ship warehouse

The City of Oakland said it has settled a lawsuit over deadly Ghost Ship warehouse fire.

Derick Almena, the Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant awaiting re-trial on 36 involuntary manslaughter charges, will likely be released from jail due to the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said Wednesday.

Three jurors have been dismissed and replaced with alternates in the trial of two men charged with involuntary manslaughter in the 2016 Oakland warehouse fire.

A man blamed for the nation’s deadliest structure fire in more than 14 years at the so-called Ghost Ship warehouse in California appeared briefly in court Thursday to face 36 counts of involuntary manslaughter.

One survivor of the deadly warehouse fire in Oakland has been clinging to life for the past six weeks. He was the last people to escape the horrific fire that killed 36 but wasn’t on the rolls of the seriously injured until recently.

While the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is examining whether the “electrical system” could have been the cause of the deadly Oakland warehouse blaze, a special agent said the “analysis will continue.”

Federal investigators from the Department of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms announced Sunday they have completed their work at the so-called Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland, where 36 people died in a fire Dec. 2.

A week has passed since 36 people, ranging from 17 to 61 years old, perished in a devastating fire during an East Oakland warehouse party. But questions remain.

The girlfriend of an Oakland fire victim experienced a “Facebook miracle” in a time of crippling grief when hundreds of social media users helped her track down a year-old photograph of the two of them.

An investigation into the deadly Oakland warehouse fire has yet to determine what caused the blaze, officials said Wednesday.

An investigation into last week’s devastating Oakland warehouse blaze has yet to reveal what caused last week’s deadly inferno. But a former tenant believes Friday’s “senseless” fire was a long time coming. Elyce Kirchner reports.

Oakland officials on Tuesday have declared a local state of emergency due to a deadly warehouse fire that killed dozens of people.

The man who founded and ran the artists’ collective at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland said he is grief stricken and “incredibly sorry” after the tragic fire that took his home and many of his friends. But in speaking out about the tragedy he refused to answer questions about safety concerns, telling NBC’s “Today” show that he would rather...