Some warehouse visitors saw warning signs in advance of Oakland fire


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  • Monday, 05 Dec 2016

Firefighters work inside the burned warehouse following the fatal fire in the Fruitvale district of Oakland, California, U.S. December 4, 2016. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson

Oakland, Calif. (Reuters) - About six months before Friday's conflagration that destroyed an Oakland warehouse and killed at least 33 people attending a party, builder Matt Hummel walked into the building and saw danger.

Hummel, who has worked on several warehouse renovations in the San Francisco Bay Area, wandered through the creative maze of rooms and sculptures built by residents of the art and music collective known as the Ghost Ship and says he worried about what would happen in a fire.

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