What the records say
- When
- 1991
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 37.86° N, 122.22° W
- Description
- October 1991 suburban wildland-urban interface conflagration in California, USA
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Oakland firestorm of 1991
Suburban wildland-urban interface conflagration in California
A large suburban firestorm occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, and southeastern Berkeley over the weekend of October 19–20, 1991, before being brought under full control on October 23. The official name of this incident by Cal Fire is the Tunnel Fire. The fire ultimately killed 25 people and injured 150 others.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A large suburban firestorm centered in Oakland Hills, California, kills 25 people and injures 150 others”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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