I have friends from college that were there, and had left earlier in the night...

Because they were worried about a fire risk. It's terrifying to know how many of them could have died that night.

Sorry to read that. Wow, just so sad, because it was preventable. Sucks.

An officer filed a report two years before the fire, but the city dropped the ball and didn't follow up.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/09/14/oa ... shows.html

An Oakland, Calif., police officer ordered the shutdown of the "Ghost Ship" rave-party site nearly two years before it went up in flames, killing 36 people, a police body camera video reveals.

The March 2015 video, obtained by the Bay Area News Group, underscores the complaints of dangerous conditions, drugs, neglected children, trash, thefts and squabbles at the warehouse, made by city and state officials long before the fatal December 2016 inferno.

The officer's report was forwarded to the vice unit, then to the department’s Alcohol Beverage Action Team on Sept. 7, according to the police department.

Before the fire erupted Dec. 2, 2016, during a dance party, the infractions were viewed as low priority. But “those policies have changed” since the tragedy, the police department said in a statement.