All are welcome to learn preparation for the next big one. The city’s blaze 100 years ago wiped out over 630 structures.
Sept. 17 will be the 100th anniversary of the 1923 Berkeley hills fire that wiped out 640 structures, including a lot of irreplaceable homes designed by the great Bernard Maybeck.
Fire Chief David Sprague wants to get the word out to as many people as possible that the city’s next big one — and there will be a next big one — will be bigger, hotter and, scariest of all, will likely move faster than anything that’s come before. “The reality is that until the winds change, there’s not a lot of actual firefighting we can do in the traditional sense. So our work will actually begin before the next fire starts. In Berkeley, where we recognize red flag days, the traditional fire warnings that we’re all used to, we’ve created a new category called ‘extreme fire weather’ so that we’ll generally know an extreme fire may be coming with at least 24 hours’ notice.
“Our goal is to systematically evacuate the people in the most danger first and ask the others to shelter in place. That’s going to be a difficult thing for a lot of folks to do. But it really will be the key to evacuating the hills and not creating instant chaos and traffic jams.
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