The fire department has made just limited progress on recommended reforms nearly four years after the Ghost Ship fire killed 36 people at a warehouse in Oakland, according to a report released Wednesday by the city auditor.

The report looks at whether the fire department’s Fire Prevention Bureau implemented the recommendations from a mayoral task force following the December 2016 fire and whether controls are in place to make sure state-mandated inspections are done and fire safety laws are enforced.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.