Oakland firestorm of 1991
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Oakland firestorm of 1991
NIST stitched together information from radio logs, 911 calls, satellite images, dash camera recordings and other sources to learn the location and time that fires appeared throughout Butte County. In this animated map, individual fires the team identified up until 10:45 a.m. on the morning of the f
nist.govIn 1979, locals became aware of the scale of the problem when a gas-station owner, then-mayor John Coddington, inserted a dipstick into one of his underground tanks to check the fuel level. When he withdrew it, it seemed hot. He lowered a thermometer into the tank on a string and was shocked to discover that the temperature of the gasoline in the t... See more
David DeKok • Centralia, Pennsylvania
