Colleen Dolan

November 27, 2025 at 3:45 a.m.

Nine years after her daughter's death in the Oakland fire, Colleen Dolan shares how incidental memories help her smile.

November 23, 2022 at 5:37 a.m.

'Thanksgiving is an especially poignant time. ... It marks the last time we saw our loved ones alive.'

March 5, 2021 at 4:34 a.m.

Plea deal for Derick Almena, architect of the tragedy that claimed 36 lives, merely an extended COVID stay-at-home order.

July 19, 2019 at 11:08 a.m.

Then, Colleen Dolan writes, defense attorneys used a fantastical story to try to blame her daughter for 36 deaths.

December 4, 2018 at 8:14 a.m.

"I am undone by the thought of my daughter’s excruciating last moments" in the blaze that killed 36 people

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