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A pair of Oakland fire officials walk past the remains of the Ghost Ship warehouse fire Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2016, in Oakland, Calif. The fire that killed 36 people during a party at an Oakland warehouse started on the ground floor and quickly raged, with smoke billowing into the second level and trapping victims whose only escape route was through the flames, federal investigators said Wednesday.
The California warehouse where a horrific fire left dozens of people dead did not have any evidence of smoke detectors, was equipped with a makeshift stairwell and had no exits on the second floor, officials said Wednesday. The officials described a terrifying scene that played out as fire ripped through the building, known as the Ghost Ship, on Dec. 2, with people inside the darkened structure overcome by smoke as the building's only exit was blocked by flames.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives alleges a New York man with ties to the West End came to the Richmond-area by bus to pick up "Mac and Ruger guns," purchased for him at a gun show illegally. The ATF says they were going after Jake Knight for trafficking in firearms.
WESLACO Several people are charged in connection with the manufacturing and distribution of explosive devices in the Rio Grande Valley. The Department of Justice unsealed a criminal complaint that said six people are in custody for purchasing, constructing and selling grenades and improvised explosive devices.
Almena is an operator of the Ghost Ship warehouse in Oakland, in which dozens of people died in a fire t... . This photo provided by the City of Oakland shows inside the burned warehouse after the deadly fire that broke out on Dec. 2, 2016, in Oakland, Calif.
A letter bomb blew up in his face last week, and tonight he's thanking his supporters on his road to recovery. The incident happened at around 4:00A.M. when police say he "opened up a package that he suspected was medication that he typically receives in the mail," but police say it that was not the case.
The City Council implicated the widow of former Police Chief Mike De Nardo in a payroll fraud investigation Tuesday when the councilmen decided to file a notice of a potential claim against her surety bond. In a unanimous decision, the councilmen directed City Attorney Trent Favre to issue a claim notice against the surety bond for Patricia De Nardo on the grounds of "payroll fraud," Councilman Lonnie Falgout said.
A sophisticated explosive device stuffed into an envelope sent to Philadelphia Center City resident James Alden may have been placed by someone in a domestic dispute, police say. The device sent Alden to surgery with wounds on his face, torso, and hand and created an explosion that was heard for blocks in the neighborhood.
Law enforcement say they are investigating the use of homemade explosives at a Dakota Access Pipeline protest. They have recovered weapons and are investigating whether or not they are related to injuries a female protester suffered.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has long had an existing ban on gun sales to anyone who uses marijuana . The ban was upheld in a controversial 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in August; A medical marijuana patient in Nevada said the ban violated the Second Amendment, but the 9th Circuit unanimously agreed that pot and other drug use "raises the risk of irrational or unpredictable behavior with which gun use should not be associated."
It's still to be determined how much impact, if any, the FBI's unprecedented last-minute actions had on Hillary Clinton's performance with presidential election voters, who this past week opted to elect her opponent, Donald Trump. What certainly is, however, is whether the bureau as a whole or its director, James Comey, are allowed to skate in what was one of the most bizarre and outrageous missteps in the history of the nation's top law enforcement agency - a flagrant abuse of its own policies and proprieties that clearly had the potential for seriously damaging Clinton's chances.
A federal team of fire investigators and special agents in Beaufort to probe the scene of a Saturday morning fire is an experienced group with varied skills. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sent about 20 investigators and agents to help determine the cause of the blaze that burned the new Beaufort County Black Chamber of Commerce building on Bladen Street.
Arms experts say the Turkish-made Zoraki 925 has been converted from a blank-firing gun to a real sub-machine gun by criminal gangs in the Middle East, Europe and Canada. According to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Jesus Velazquez conducted business as a gun merchant from the Third Street Barber Shop in southeast Fresno.
Fire Chief Ruben Brown tells The Associated Press that firefighters found flames and... . An ATF agent clears out debris in the fire damaged Hopewell M.B. Baptist Church in Greenville, Miss., Wednesday, Nov. 2, 2016.
It was Monday morning at around 5 a.m. when an apartment complex near Lake Merritt went up in flames. The building at 317-319 Lester Avenue was under construction at the time.
The building at 347 Ja-Max Drive was hit with graffiti and "flammable material" in a bottle was thrown through a window starting a fire inside, police said in an email. Graffiti that said "Nazi Republicans leave town or else" was spray painted in black paint on the side of a building next to the Republican headquarters, according to police.
Authorities found similarities in the explosive devices recovered in New York and New Jersey, connecting some of the dots between the multiple incidents over the weekend. The bombs in New York and Seaside Park, New Jersey, utilized flip phones, although there were differences in design between the devices.
An eight-alarm fire destroyed a GAP clothing distribution center in Fishkill on Monday night. More than 100 warehouse employees evacuated safely, according to state police.
In response to a questionnaire given to the International Association of Chiefs of Police Hillary Clinton referenced a Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearm statistic that says many gun dealers do not follow federal gun laws but few have their licenses revoked. "New York has no control over another state's gun laws, so it has to depend on the federal government to enforce federal firearms laws against irresponsible gun dealers across the country.
In an Alert issued on August 8, 2016 , F.A.I.R. Trade Group notified members of an apparent change in ATF policy on the term of validity of the law enforcement demonstration letters required to be submitted with Form 6 import applications and National Firearms Act transfer applications. The Alert advised that at the recent Import/Export conference held in Washington, DC, ATF officials advised industry members that the law letter required to import and transfer machineguns as dealer sales samples is valid only for a period of six months.