BERKELEY LOSS $9,000,000: 3,000 HOMELESS, 100 INJURED - The San Francisco Examiner, Wednesday, September 19, 1923

100 years ago, almost to the day, a terrible fire wiped out 640 homes in Berkeley:

The 1923 Berkeley, California, fire was a conflagration that consumed some 640 structures, including 584 houses in the densely-built neighborhoods north of the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, California, on September 17, 1923. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1923_Berkeley,_California,_fire 

Fires were breaking out all over California. Marin and Sonoma counties were hit hard. 

In Marin, a wildfire on September 17 burned from Ignacio through Lucas and Nicasio Valleys, to Woodacre, Lagunitas, and Bolinas Ridge. This happened at the same time as huge fires burned in Sonoma County and in Berkeley, along with 15 other counties in California.

https://www.marinfirehistory.org/1923-wildfires-including-ignacio-to-bolinas-ridge-fairfax.html

Read the front-page news from the September 19, 1923 San Francisco Examiner, below. Some commonalities in this story with what we have today are heat, wind, dry fuel, eucalyptus and other non-native trees and plants, above-ground electrical infrastructure and population density near forested land.

BERKELEY LOSS $9,000,000: 3,000 HOMELESS, 100 INJURED 19 Sep 1923, Wed The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com

MRS. J. MILLER WOULD HAVE MEMORIAL - Oakland Tribune, November 09, 1913

MRS. J. MILLER WOULD HAVE MEMORIAL

Wife of Poet Gives Reasons for Wishing Oakland to Have Big Park.

"The Heights," Replete With Interest, Offered as Worthy Memento.

In the following letter, teeming with interesting facts about the personal life of the late Poet of the Sierras, Mrs. Joaquin Miller sets forth her reasons why she believes "The Hights" should be purchased by Oakland as a memorial park:

EDITOR TRIBUNE: I am grateful for your kindly and publicly expressed appreciation of the "Hights" and that you value the place through its association. In 1885 Emerson, Longfellow and Oliver Wendell Holmes urged Mr. Miller to make his home near them and tried to interest him in property in Boston - financially considered most desirable but Mr. Miller was loyal to California and had a view for these hills indelibly impressed upon his mind. In all his travels he had seen nothing to equal it.