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Berkeley Disasters
The Firestorm of 1923
The conflagration of September 17, 1923, started innocently enough as a small black column of smoke that gently rose over the hills to the east of Berkeley. But then some of…
Firestorms of 1970 & 1991
Great fires erupted in Berkeley in September of 1970 and October 1991, too.
Sources on the Fire of 1991 -The Oakland Hills FireHistoric Newspaper clippings The Berkeley History…