Bea Soria, who had smelled of smoke at Kent’s barbecue the day before, also fought the Sunday fire.
I spent many hours after the fire working with an Oakland Chief, an Oakland Captain, and a civilian volunteer trying to figure out what really happened the day of the fire.
The thick, black, smoke twisted angrily above the Caldecott Tunnel, like the flared nostrils of some medieval dragon as I approached Station 1 the afternoon of the Firestorm.
The weather seemed very strange at Lake Temescal on Sunday morning, Oct. 20, Park Supervisor Frances Heath recalled.
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More from Steve Quick about the fire truck that got singed.
During the Oakland fire I was a member our the Industrial fire dept. for the District.
Some East Bay Regional Park District employees and at least one relative were among the thousands of people who lost their homes in the Oakland Hills fire of October 19 and 20, 1991.
Ours To Keep 75 Years in the Regional Parks