Firefighters walk along 31st Avenue near International Boulevard near the site of the Ghost Ship fire that killed 36 people, on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. This upcoming week will mark the sixth anniversary of the infamous Ghost Ship inferno that killed 36 people in an Oakland warehouse. Last month was the 31anniversary of the firestorm in the hills to the east that claimed 25 lives, destroyed more than 3,000 homes and caused an estimated $1.5 billion in damage.
The good news is that there’s a relatively new chief in town. Reginald Freeman has made changes in his leadership team over the past 1½ years, and he insists that the lax practices of the past will not continue. We hope not.by Oakland’s independent city auditor, Courtney Ruby, finds that, as of September, nine of the department’s 19 fire inspectors and fire-inspector supervisors lacked the required certification for the job.
Equally disturbing, the fire department last year misled the auditor about the certifications. After receiving a whistleblower complaint, the Auditor’s Office was first told in August 2021 that all employees were current in their certifications. But when Ruby received another complaint, she initiated her own investigation, which led to this month’s report.
That would involve the City of Oakland following and *enforcing* it’s own laws. L-O-L
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