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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — A teacher, the son of a sheriff’s agent and adolescent artists who admired music were amid those dead aback a blaze tore through a adapted Oakland barn during a ball party.
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The afterlife assessment from Friday night’s blaze climbed to 36 on Monday with added bodies still feared alive in the rubble.
The victims included 17-year-olds and bodies from Europe and Asia, Alameda County Sheriff’s Sgt. Ray Kelly said. Here’s a afterpiece attending at who they were:
A GREAT FRIEND
Peter Wadsworth was thoughtful, caring and consistently accommodating to accommodate a allowance hand, his acquaintance Tammy Tasoff said.
Tasoff, 29, said Wadsworth looked out for her, accomplishing little things that fabricated her activity easier. He would adapt her blowzy files, accord her admonition and fix her computer if she bare help, said Tasoff, a dental student.
He bought video amateur because he knew she admired them, and he would generally watch her play, she said.
“Usually he’d say, ‘Let’s comedy video games,’ and again he’d say, ‘No, I aloof appetite to watch you play,'” she said, sobbing. “He’d accomplish me food. He took absolutely acceptable affliction of me. He was like my big brother.”
TEACHER, GARDENER
Sara Hoda, 30, of Walnut Creek, was a “sweet person” who gardened and accomplished at a Montessori school, acquaintance Carol Crewdson told the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/2g3oOTH)
Crewdson, 33, met Hoda in 2010 aback they started a aggregate area artists and creatives could stay, alienated the San Francisco Bay Area’s aerial rent.
They absent blow afterwards the aggregate shut down. But Crewdson said while it was operating, Hoda was actual alive in the aggregate process.
PLAYED WITH A BAND
Nick Gomez-Hall, 25, was a 2013 alum of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, area he concentrated in American Studies. He additionally was a alum of Coronado Aerial Academy in Southern California.
The Alameda County Coroner’s Appointment articular him as one of the blaze victims.
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While in Rhode Island, Gomez-Hall formed with Brown University’s Swearer Center for Public Service as a armpit coordinator for an after-school affairs at an elementary school, The Providence Journal appear (http://bit.ly/2g3agDv).
He additionally played guitar and sang with a bandage alleged Nightmom.
Friends who knew Gomez-Hall through the music arena said Monday he had afresh confused aback to California, the bi-weekly reported.
OTHER VICTIMS
The burghal of Oakland articular some of the added bodies dead as Cash Askew, 22, David Clines, 35, Travis Hough, 35, and Donna Kellogg, 32, all of Oakland; and Brandon Chase Wittenauer, 32, of Hayward.
Officials said they accept articular an eighth victim but are denial the name because the being was 17 years old.
One of the bodies dead was the son of a bounded deputy, Kelly said at a annual appointment Sunday. He did not absolution the name.
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Many accompany and ancestors associates were still anxiously apprehension chat of their missing admired ones as the arduous chase for charcoal connected Monday. Some aggregate alfresco a sheriff’s appointment for news.
LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP
Among the missing are Alex Ghassan and his fiancée, Hanna Henrikka Ruax.
Ghassan is a administrator and ambassador who formed with Spike Lee and Talib Kweli. He additionally is the ancestor of accompanying toddlers.
Ruax is a yoga instructor, administrator and activist visiting from Helsinki, Finland. She accustomed in Oakland in backward November.
The brace had been dating long-distance, and Ghassan was advancing to move to Europe, said his acquaintance Vikram Babu. “He was fed up with the U.S.,” Babu said.
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Ghassan ahead lived in Orange, New Jersey. He has lived in Oakland on and off for about a year, Babu said.
Ghassan’s mother, Emilie Grandchamps, told WABC-TV (https://goo.gl/HFH3eN), that Ghassan generally went out of his way to advice added artists.
Before the fire, Ghassan acquaint video of the barn affair on Instagram. “Oakland reminds me of #JerseyCity so abundant at times,” he wrote.
Ruax, meanwhile, is a amusing amends activist who organized a ample beef in Finland afterwards a neo-Nazi assemblage in that European country, Babu said. “She is actual gentle,” he said.
Ruax’s Instagram annual is abounding with antic photos of her and Ghassan. Last week, she acquaint a selfie with Ghassan area both fabricated funny faces into the camera.
“Sent this pic to my mumz afterwards accession home to my boo,” she wrote. “Home candied home!”
DANCER WHO LOVED MUSIC
Friends and ancestors were captivation out achievement that columnist Amanda Allen, 34, would be begin safe.
Allen, a Chelmsford, Massachusetts, native, is as a ballerina with a affection for music, admired ones told The Lowell Sun (http://bit.ly/2gISHNd).
“We are all praying for a phenomenon and advancing calm as a family,” said her mother, Linda Smith Regan.
Allen’s husband, Andy Kershaw, a DJ, alleged her active and magnetic.
Allen accelerating from Bridgewater State University in 2004. She and Kershaw confused to San Francisco from Boston in 2008.
Chelmsford built-in Shannon Fisher said Allen took ballet as a adolescent and afterwards accepted “that underground agreeable life.” Fisher declared Allen as acute and funny, with a beam that comes easily.
A photography website acceptance to Allen says she shoots portraits and events.
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A BEAUTIFUL SOUL
Andy Kershaw said his acquaintance and adolescent DJ Johnny Igaz additionally was unaccounted for.
Igaz reportedly was arena a set aback the blaze bankrupt out. He was listed on Facebook as a almanac client at Green Apple Books and Music in San Francisco.
His Facebook folio was blowzy with bawling posts from accompany who alleged him a admirable anatomy and a accurate friend.
STRONG ENOUGH TO BE HERSELF
Riley Fritz, 29, a artisan and artisan from Connecticut, afresh confused to San Francisco to be with friends, according to her brother, Ben Fritz.
“She was a affectionate and admirable being who had the backbone to be her accurate cocky alike aback she knew that was not an accessible path,” Ben Fritz, 39, told The Associated Press. He said she appeared to be the “happiest she had been in a few years.”
Ben Fritz said the ancestors was notified Sunday night that Riley, additionally accepted as Feral Pines, acceptable was dead in the fire.
Their father, Bruce Fritz, told the San Francisco Chronicle (http://bit.ly/2haW54C) he was aerial to Oakland on Monday to analyze Riley’s body. He said he would be abutting by Ben Fritz, who lives in Los Angeles.
Riley Fritz accelerating from Staples Aerial Academy in Westport in 2005 and the Academy for the Visual Arts in Manhattan in 2010. She lived in several places afore affective to the Bay Area, according to her family.
Bruce Fritz said Riley was built-in Justin Riley Fritz and asked to be referred to as changeable afterwards college. She was accepted as Justin to best in her hometown of Westport, Connecticut, area she played bass guitar in bounded bands, her ancestor said.
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Associated Press writers Janie Har in Oakland and Russell Contreras in Albuquerque, New Mexico, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This actual may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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