36 perish in Oakland warehouse fire

Debris litters the inside of a warehouse where a fire killed 36 people during a club-style party.  (David Butow / For The Times)

A firefighter walks through the burned-out Oakland warehouse on Saturday.

Firefighters walk through a debris-strewn warehouse where a fire killed at least nine people in Oakland.

A drone flies over investigators outside Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse, where 36 people died this month in one of the worst fires in modern California history.  (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times)

Titus Cromwell, 4, places a flower from his family’s garden near the scene of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire in Oakland.

In the days after the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland, hearts dedicated to victims were hung from a nearby tree.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Daryl Norman, 63, of Oakland stops by the scene of the fire on his way to church in Oakland. “I had to come see for myself,” he said of the 36 victims. “God bless them.”

People stand at the perimeter holding flowers while watching crews remove material from what remains of the “Ghostship” warehouse fire, that burned and killed at least 36 people in the Oakland neighborhood of Fruitvale.

An art installation near the scene of the Ghost Ship fire.

People pay their respects Dec. 11 near the scene of the warehouse fire.

Mourners observe a moment of silence for the lives lost in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire at the Oakland Museum of California on Friday evening.

ATF agents map the scene of the fire investigation Friday at the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland. (Francine Orr/ Los Angeles Times)

Rain falls on the memorial for victims of the Oakland warehouse fire.

Hillary Morse, 22, of Oakland mourns the loss of two of her close friends in the warehouse fire in Oakland.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Jacob Ramirez, 4, left, looks on while his grandmother Eva Ramirez, 52, consoles Hillary Morse, 22, right, of Oakland near the site of the warehouse fire in Oakland.

Flowers, candles and notes, memorializing those killed and injured in the “Ghostship” warehouse fire that burned and killed at least 36 people in the Oakland neighborhood of Fruitvale.

A makeshift memorial of flowers and candles stands Dec. 4 near the site of the Oakland warehouse fire.  (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

A man who identified himself as Ben P. reads cards on Sunday at a memorial near the site of the blaze.

Kristen Grzeca, a music teacher at Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts, hugs Monina Sen Cervone, director of world music and dance at the school, on Sunday at a makeshift memorial for victims of the warehouse fire. A 17-year-old victim was one of Grzeca’s students.

After attending church, Teionna Cunningham of Oakland leaves flowers near the site of the fire.

A Seventh Day Adventist group prays on Sunday near the scene of the fire on 31st Avenue in Oakland.

Flowers are left near an Oakland warehouse where a fire broke out during a concert, killing 36 people.

Dino Graniello, left, and Jessie Xenakis light candles near the scene of a warehouse fire in Oakland that killed at least two dozen partygoers.