Horror of Oakland fire resonates in Mass. families
Amanda Allen, a Chelmsford High School graduate, was photographing the deejay awash in pulsating light. Micah Danemayer, who grew up in Somerville, was projecting video images onto a screen. Nick Gomez-Hall, a musician who graduated from Brown University, was taking it all in. Peter Wadsworth, a Cohasset native, was downstairs, part of a collective of artists and musicians who lived in the warehouse, known as the Ghost Ship.
All four were members of a young tribe of musicians, deejays, and dancers who gravitated toward the electronic music scene and were inside the two-floor warehouse in Oakland, Calif., when it erupted in flames Friday night. At least 36 people were killed in what authorities have called one of the worst building fires in the United States in more than a decade.
Allen, 34, Danemayer, 28, and Wadsworth, 38, were among those missing. Gomez-Hall, 25, was among the confirmed deaths.
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