Derick Ion Almena

• Exclusive DailyMail.com photographs show the squalor and chaos inside the Oakland warehouse before Friday night fire which left 36 dead
• Tenant in building disclosed images and lengthy written complaint in which she detailed life inside the Ghost Ship 'collective' - including more revelations about its organizer, Derick Ion Almena
• Shelley Mack told how he was a control freak who told her off for what she watched on television while she lived there in late 2014 and early 2015
• He let his three children roam free in the cluttered space which was covered with loose wires and where narrow corridors were blocked with junk 
• Centerpiece of his 'art' was collection of Hindu mystical imagery - but he ignored basics of the building code and she complained that it was a 'fire hazard' 

Shocking video and images have emerged from inside the doomed Oakland warehouse depicting a squalid 'hell-hole' not fit to live in - as a tenant told how cats urinated everywhere and it was the venue for an orgy.

The footage and photos, obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com, shows the living quarters of some of the residents of the building known as the Oakland Ghost Ship.

While photos on the art collective's website show an eclectic and creative space for artists and musicians, the reality of life behind the scenes in this dilapidated building is horrific.

Dark and dingy rooms don't look fit for humans, with exposed electrical wires and panels, venting pipes and piles of junk and old clothes everywhere.

Tenant Shelley Mack, who disclosed the pictures to DailyMail.com also revealed that there were three fires while she lived there  - in late 2014 and early 2015 - caused by faulty electrics.

Chaotic firetrap: The extent to which debris was blocking rat-run corridors and jerry-rigged gas and electrical systems is revealed in the pictures obtained by DailyMail.com

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By RYAN PARRY IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA FOR DAILYMAIL.COM