OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) – One of two men being blamed for a warehouse fire that killed 36 people in the San Francisco Bay Area two years ago denied being involved in organizing a concert the night the fire broke out.
Max Harris faces involuntarily manslaughter charges and is accused of helping co-defendant Derick Almena illegally convert the so-called Ghost Ship warehouse into an artist live-work space and scheduling concerts there.
Harris testified that he didn’t actively organize the Dec. 2, 2016, concert that he said happens every first Friday of the month, long before he became a tenant of the warehouse.
