Death Toll Rises in Oakland Warehouse Party Fire

On Friday night, a deadly fire broke out at a party at a warehouse in Oakland. Officials announced this morning that the death toll has risen to 24, The New York Times reports. Many more people are still unaccounted for, as rescue workers continued to search through the rubble of the destroyed building. Yesterday, the official death toll was nine.

The fire was called “one of the deadliest structure fires in the United States in the last…

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