https://www.siliconvalley.com/2021/02/16/after-devastating-fire-oakland-community-center-says-city-dropped-the-ball/

The emails to the city grew increasingly desperate.

“Please handle this with serious, deliberate urgency,” Shirley Gee pleaded in January, describing unhoused people camping, cooking and leaving propane tanks up against her Oakland community center. She was terrified the wooden building — where she and her staff feed 2,500 people in need each month — would go up in flames.