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FILE - In this Monday, Dec. 5, 2016, file photo, candles, photos and flowers are placed at a makeshift memorial near the site of a massive warehouse fire in Oakland, Calif. Micah Allison, the wife of the founder of a ramshackle Oakland artists' colony where dozens of people burned to death in a fire last month says she's sorry about what happened but is angry about what she called &quot;pretty terrible&quot; treatment by the media and ex-neighbors. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

Partner of artist colony leader sorry about deadly blaze

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Shelley Mack, a one-time tenant of the converted warehouse dubbed the &quot;Ghost Ship&quot; warehouse where a fire has claimed dozens of lives, talks about her experiences from her home in Concord, Calif. She lived there for four or five months about two years ago. She paid about $700 a month in rent. Mack said she didn't know the ramshackle dwelling was illegal until after she moved in, and was instructed to tell visitors it was a 24-hour workspace for artists. (AP Photo/Terry Chea)

Colleagues paint caustic portrait of artist colony founder

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and TIM REITERMAN - Associated Press