Ghost Ship warehouse

Wednesday will be four years since the horrific Ghost Ship Warehouse Fire in Oakland killed 36 people. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has obtained hundreds of photos and other evidence never seen before that could be key to finally solving the mystery of how it started.

Wednesday will be four years since the horrific Ghost Ship Warehouse Fire in Oakland killed 36 people. The NBC Bay Area Investigative Unit has obtained hundreds of photos and other evidence never seen before that could be key to finally solving the mystery of how it started. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports.

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.

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.

A judge on Monday denied a defense motion asking that Ghost Ship master tenant Derick Almena be released from Santa Rita Jail in Dublin because his health is deteriorating and the novel coronavirus pandemic has made the conditions at the jail unsafe.

Thirty-six people died in a fire during a party at the so-called Ghost Ship warehouse back in December 2016.

Deliberations in the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse trial resumed Tuesday after a nearly two-week break, and no verdict was reached.

Two of the three jurors dismissed from the Ghost Ship trial broke court order and could be held in contempt for misconduct, Judge Trina Thompson said Tuesday.

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.

The jury in the Ghost Ship warehouse trial wrapped up its second week of deliberation Thursday with another request that caught one defense attorney by surprise.

A jury continued deliberating Thursday the fate of two men charged in a deadly fire at an Oakland warehouse two years ago.

The jury in the trial for two men charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with the deadly Oakland warehouse fire started deliberations Wednesday after closing arguments wrapped.

An Oakland police officer testified Tuesday that he shut down an illegal rave party at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland about 21 months before a fire during a party there in December 2016 that killed 36 people.

The founder of a California communal living warehouse where a fire killed 36 people more than two years ago says testified Thursday he’s not blaming anyone else for the deadly fire.

Ghost Ship warehouse master tenant Derick Almena admitted under cross-examination on Wednesday that he didn’t get permits for work he had performed at the building in Oakland’s Fruitvale district that was the site of a 2016 fire that killed 36 people.

The founder of an artists’ collective in an Oakland warehouse that caught fire two years ago, killing 36, said that the many police, fire and other officials who visited the communal live-work space never notified him it might be a fire hazard.

A woman testified on Monday that she overheard a group of men congratulate themselves on starting the fire at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland in 2016 blaze that killed 36 people.

A special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives testified Thursday that investigators didn’t find any evidence that an explosion caused the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland in 2016 that killed 36 people.

An investigator with the federal bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives testified Wednesday that the large amount of flammable materials at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland made the deadly fire spread quickly there in December 2016.