The Latest: Artist colony founder: Warehouse is mass grave
OAKLAND, Calif. — The Latest on a deadly fire in an Oakland warehouse (all times local):
4:15 a.m.
The founder of an Oakland artists’ colony where dozens of people burned to death says he is sorry, but deflected blame for the blaze that gutted the warehouse that he now describes as a “mass grave.”
Derick Ion Almena, who leased and operated the warehouse full of artists where the fire erupted Friday, told the “Today Show” on Tuesday that he was ‘Incredibly sorry.” He said the only reason he was there Tuesday was to put his face and his body in front of the scene.