December 8, 2016
Still reeling from the Oakland warehouse fire that claimed 36 lives — including five people with ties to UC Berkeley — the campus community gathered today for a solemn vigil at Zellerbach Hall intended, in the words of Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, “to mourn, remember and celebrate those whose absence we are only now beginning to confront and accept.”
As mourners streamed in from under a light rain falling on Lower Sproul Plaza, some paused in the lobby to leave words of remembrance on five posters, each bearing a photo of one of those lost in the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland’s Fruitvale district, where a party was being staged when the devastating blaze broke out Friday night.
Berkeley News