Deadly Oakland fire may spur crackdown on off-the-grid artists’ spaces

Smoke hung in the air for days in Oakland’s largely Latino Fruitvale district after a deadly fire broke out late Friday night in an artists’ warehouse, leaving 36 people dead.
Like so much of the city, it’s a neighborhood facing ripples of gentrification created by the tech boom in the Bay Area, which now has some of the highest rents in the country.
Carmen Brito lived in the now destroyed warehouse known as the Ghost Ship. She barely got out with her life.
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