More than 30 people killed in Oakland warehouse fire

Some victims are worldwide, according to Alameda County Sheriffs Officials.

Drayton added that one victim was found within feet of the breached wall, and by the time they had made the 15-foot search, three more bodies were found.

The city also knows the identity of an eighth victim, but because that person is 17 and a minor, it would not release that victim’s name.

Amanda Brown, co-owner of the L.A. -based music label 100% Silk whose artists were playing the Oakland warehouse party that was engulfed in a deadly fire Friday night, says she and her partner Britt Brown were “blindsided” by news of the disaster. Officials believe 50 to 100 people may have attended the event at the building which had been converted into an arts collective.

As criminal investigators joined recovery efforts at the charred ruin, just east of San Francisco, firefighters found the remains of almost three dozen victims at the weekend as they searched the debris-filled shell of the two-story converted warehouse being used by an artists’ collective. The first responders are reportedly exhausted, emotional, and they still have a long way to go. The website included advertisements for various electronic music parties. He declined additional comment.

An Oakland police department deputy lost his own son in the fire.

Former residents said the venue was a death trap with few exits and a rickety makeshift staircase.

The death toll from the blaze climbed to 30 this morning and is expected to rise, with only around 20 percent of the building searched so far, officials said.

Shelley Mack said she was not told the residence was illegal until after she moved in a couple of years ago, and she stayed for four to five months. When inspectors or other outsiders came to visit, she said she and other residents scurried to hide clothes, bedding and other evidence anyone was living there.

The investigation continues into the Friday night Oakland warehouse fire that took place during an electronic dance party.

The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has begun its criminal investigation and is looking at this with all of the other law enforcement partners.

The authorities on Sunday asked relatives of the missing to “eliminate future delays” in identifying victims by preserving such items as hairbrushes and toothbrushes for DNA samples.

In the statement Saturday he said: “Our thoughts are with the entire city in this hard time and we extend our condolences to the family and friends of those lost”.

Darin Ranelletti, of the Oakland Planning Department, told the AP the city opened an investigation November 13 and an investigator went to the premises on November 17 but could not get inside. Landeza met with the families at an Alameda County sheriff’s office in Oakland, California, that has been turned into a family resource center.

At least nine people died in the fire as scores of others escaped. Authorities are using shovels and buckets to sift through debris.

A number of victims are said to be foreign nationals and embassies have been contacted.

City Fire Chief Teresa Deloach Reed said the blaze marked the worst single-structure fire she had seen in her career.

The dead include an unspecified number of teenagers, said Sgt.

“We had firefighters with basically coveralls and buckets and shovels taking bits of debris out into the vacant lot to be loaded into dump trucks and removed to an off-site location”, she said.

KTVU reported that another 25 people were unaccounted for. But already, it is one of California’s deadliest fires in years. Ray Kelly earlier Sunday. The NFL Oakland Raiders say they’ve joined forces with the Major League Baseball’s Oakland A’s to aid those affected by the fire.

The converted warehouse was known as the “Ghost Ship”. It remains unclear how many people were in attendance when the fire broke out.