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| At least nine dead, 20 missing after fire breaks out at Oakland warehouse during concert | At least nine dead, 20 missing after fire breaks out at Oakland warehouse during concert |
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| At least nine people were killed and many others are unaccounted for after a three-alarm fire broke out during a concert in Oakland on Friday, authorities announced on Saturday morning. | |
| Thirty to 70 concertgoers were inside the building when the blaze began around 11:30pm local time. | |
| "A majority of the fatalities were found up on the second floor," the city’s Fire Chief Teresa Deloach Reed told reporters. "It must have been a very fast-moving fire." | "A majority of the fatalities were found up on the second floor," the city’s Fire Chief Teresa Deloach Reed told reporters. "It must have been a very fast-moving fire." |
| The show was hosted by 100% Silk, Los Angeles-based electronic label, including Golden Donna, Cherushii, Nackt, and more acts were on the bill. | |
| “It was too hot, too much smoke, I had to get out of there,” Bob Mule, a resident who lives at the building, told the East Bay Times, adding that he suffered minor burns and saw someone jumping from the building’s second floor window. “I literally felt my skin peeling and my lungs being suffocated by smoke. I couldn’t get the fire extinguisher to work.” |