Reminder from: | californiadisasters Yahoo! Group | |
Title: | 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm | |
Date: | Wednesday October 20, 2010 | |
Time: | 11:00 am - 11:00 am | |
Repeats: | This event repeats every year. | |
Location: | East Bay Hills of Alameda Co./Oakland/Berkeley | |
Notes: | On this date in 1991 a powerful Diablo Wind Event featuring tropical storm force winds fanned a small smoldering fire on patrol status that had started and been contained the day before into a raging monster that killed 25 people (including both a firefighter and a policeman) and injured another 150 people, damaged or destroyed 3,354 single family dwellings and 437 multi-family dwellings, and scorched 1,520 acres costing a grand total of about $1.5 billion in 1991 dollars. | |
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