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A massive firestorm breaks out in the hills of Oakland and Berkeley, California killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,000 homes, apartments and condominiums.
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High intensity conflagration
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Oakland firestorm of 1991
Suburban wildland-urban interface conflagration in California
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