20th Anniversary of the Oakland Hills Firestorm-killed 25

[RamboLiberal]

Oakland Hills Fire burned hundreds of homes, on Oct. 20, 1991. Aerial fire bombers were used to extingues flames during the firestorm. The Clairmont Hotel, foreground, was not damaged. Nearly 3,000 homes were destroyed and 25 people were killed in the blaze, which took days to contain. Twenty years after the fire that ravaged the Oakland hills, once-charred slopes have blossomed anew with handsome houses looking over the San Francisco Bay.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/18/oaklandhillsfire.DTL

[Scurrilous]

1. Thanks.

K & R :thumbsup:

[Suich]

2. My aunt and uncle had a place in the Oakland Hills,

where I used to spend the summer.

Haven't had the heart to go back since the fire.