The civil case lawsuit stemming from the deadly 2016 Ghost Ship warehouse fire in the San Francisco Bay Area has been settled.
On Thursday (July 16), the city of Oakland agreed to pay $32.7 million to settle suits over the 2016 blaze that took 36 lives, the Associated Press reports.
Of that sum, $23.5 million will be allocated to the families of the victims, or roughly $734,000 per family, local reports say.
Also, $9.2 million will go to Sam Maxwell, who survived the fire but suffered severe, lifelong injuries. Oakland City Council authorized the payment with families of 32 of the fire victims.
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