Oakland firestorm of 1991
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Oakland firestorm of 1991
The Carr Fire, as it came to be known, ignited on July 23 near the hamlet of Whiskeytown, fifteen miles west of Redding, due to sparks thrown by a trailer wheel with a flat tire. Three days later, the fire roared into the city. The temperature that day was similar to Black Saturday, 2009: 113°F (tying a local record that was 13°F above the average
... See moreJohn Vaillant • Fire Weather
Statewide attention to the fire began to increase, culminating on February 14, 1981, when a 12-year-old resident named Todd Domboski fell into a sinkhole, 4 feet (1.2 m) wide by 150 feet (46 m) deep, that suddenly opened beneath his feet in his grandmother’s backyard, but saved himself by grabbing onto a tree root. His cousin, 14-year-old Eric Wolf... See more
David DeKok • Centralia, Pennsylvania
Years after the fires, the network remains, helping community members find new apartments and jobs,
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
As fire ecologist Richard Minnich has said, "You can send an arsonist to Death Valley and he'll never be arrested."