Oakland police bodycam video captures officer predicting danger 1 year before Ghost Ship fire

Monday, April 30, 2018
OAKLAND, Calif. -- An Oakland police officer who responded to a call at the Ghost Ship warehouse in 2015 predicted the fire danger there.

The officer can be heard in police body cam video obtained by the East Bay Times.
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"One spark and it will be all bad," said Officer Moises Palanco, commenting on conditions inside the warehouse a year before the deadly 2016 fire that killed 36 people.

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Police defended the officer saying they're not trained to identify fire hazards.
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