Fire crews in California on Sunday were searching the charred remains of a warehouse gutted by a blaze during a rave party, with officials saying the death toll could reach 40. Relatives of dozens of people missing in the Friday night blaze in Oakland near San Francisco endured an anxious wait for news. Orange flames shot through the roof as the fire burned for hours and thick smoke billowed into the sky. Map locating Oakland in California, where a fire in a warehouse during a rave party is feared to have killed dozens of people. “I literally felt my skin peeling and my lungs being suffocated by smoke,” Bob Mule, a photographer who lives in the building, told Fox television affiliate KTVU.

Source: Hindustan Times December 04, 2016 14:03 UTC