Who’s Burning Down Oakland?
After a fire destroyed the only place I could afford to live, I knew it was time to leave for good
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15 min readOct 30, 2019
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My wife and I were sleeping when the fire began. We were startled awake by the muffled sound of our neighbor, Jake, banging on our door. “Everybody out!” he shouted. I stumbled downstairs and could see the hallway outside was filled with thick white…