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Mayor Libby Schaaf Remembers the Oakland Hills Firestorm, Thirty Years Later

Mayor Libby Schaaf Remembers the Oakland Hills Firestorm, Thirty Years Later

KQED's Forum

October 20, 202115m 42s

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Show Notes

Thirty years ago, a small, mostly-extinguished grassfire was stoked by a hot, dry wind that ignited a firestorm in the Oakland and Berkeley hills killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,400 homes. As the Bay Area remembers the Tunnel Fire, we talk to Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf about the lessons the city and firefighters learned from the tragedy and her own memories of that fire which destroyed her family home.

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