EXCLUSIVE: Filth, chaos, weird religious symbols, feral animals and orgies - inside Oakland warehouse of horrors before deadly blaze as tenant tells of previous fires
- Exclusive DailyMail.com photographs show the squalor and chaos inside the Oakland warehouse before Friday night fire which left 36 dead
- Tenant in building disclosed images and lengthy written complaint in which she detailed life inside the Ghost Ship 'collective' - including more revelations about its organizer, Derick Ion Almena
- Shelley Mack told how he was a control freak who told her off for what she watched on television while she lived there in late 2014 and early 2015
- He let his three children roam free in the cluttered space which was covered with loose wires and where narrow corridors were blocked with junk
- Centerpiece of his 'art' was collection of Hindu mystical imagery - but he ignored basics of the building code and she complained that it was a 'fire hazard'
- See more of the latest news and updates about the Oakland warehouse fire which left 36 dead
Shocking video and images have emerged from inside the doomed Oakland warehouse depicting a squalid 'hell-hole' not fit to live in - as a tenant told how cats urinated everywhere and it was the venue for an orgy.
The footage and photos, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, shows the living quarters of some of the residents of the building known as the Oakland Ghost Ship.
While photos on the art collective's website show an eclectic and creative space for artists and musicians, the reality of life behind the scenes in this dilapidated building is horrific.
Dark and dingy rooms don't look fit for humans, with exposed electrical wires and panels, venting pipes and piles of junk and old clothes everywhere.
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'They were small fires. There were no sprinklers so everybody was just aware, if you smelled smoke you would go look and put it out.
'They were isolated fires, a transponder blew up and electrical sockets got overloaded, everybody was very aware that the place was a fire hazard, it was filled with old dried wood and wooden furniture.
'There were power cords and extension cords hooked up to extension cords everywhere. To get across all the place to heat and light all the trailers. Everybody would plug in and they'd get overloaded, refrigerators and microwaves and cell phones, lots of electrical equipment and massive stereo equipment, any system would have been overloaded.'
people choose to live that way, I have little sympathy when it burns down around them ....