Tuesday, October 20, 2015

[californiadisasters] 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm, Tuesday, 20 October 2015



"1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm" reminder
When
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
07:00 PM to 07:00 PM
(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time - Dublin / Edinburgh / Lisbon / London
Where
Alameda County - East Bay Hills
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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