… and Ulcers, and High Blood Pressure, and Some
Have Chronic Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Notice
the huge number of civilian volunteers doing rescue work in these
videos. Because the mayors of the Bay Cities recognized the value of
these heroic civilian volunteers during this disaster in which the
first responders were immediately totally overwhelmed, shortly
after this earthquake San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley implemented
the CERT
(Community Emergency Response Team) program that had recently been
developed by the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The Oakland
Firestorm of 1991 was a large urban fire that occurred on the
hillsides of northern
Oakland, California, and southeastern
Berkeley on Sunday October 20, 1991, two years after the
Loma Prieta earthquake. The fire has also been called the Oakland
hills firestorm, the East Bay Hills Fire, and the Tunnel Fire (because
of its origin above the west portal of the
Caldecott Tunnel) in Oakland. The fire ultimately killed 25 people
and injured 150 others. The 1,520 acres (6.2 km˛) destroyed included
3,354 single-family dwellings and 437 apartment and condominium units.
The economic loss has been estimated at $1.5 billion. [More
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