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Mayor Libby Schaaf Remembers the Oakland Hills Firestorm, Thirty Years Later

Thirty years ago, a small, mostly-extinguished grassfire was stoked by a hot, dry wind that ignited a firestorm in the Oakland and Berkeley hills killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,400 homes. As the Bay Area remembers the Tunnel Fire, we talk to Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf about the lessons the city and firefighters learned from the tragedy and her own memories of that fire which destroyed her family home. see more
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Mayor Libby Schaaf Remembers the Oakland Hills Firestorm, Thirty Years Later

Thirty years ago, a small, mostly-extinguished grassfire was stoked by a hot, dry wind that ignited a firestorm in the Oakland and Berkeley hills killing 25 people and destroying more than 3,400 homes. As the Bay Area remembers the Tunnel Fire, we talk to Oakland mayor Libby Schaaf about the lessons the city and firefighters learned from the tragedy and her own memories of that fire which destroyed her family home. see more
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Berkeley High Students Protest Racist Message

Mina Kim
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Around 2,000 Berkeley High School students walked out of class Thursday to protest a racist message left on a computer in the school library. The computer screen displayed an image containing racial epithets and language threatening violence against African-Americans, which a student later admitted to posting. Protest organizers say the incident is not an isolated one: In December, a noose was found hanging from a tree on campus, and the school's 2015 yearbook was recalled after it was found to contain an offensive comment.

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Lance Knobel, Berkeleyside co-founder

Alecia Harger, co-president of Black Student Union at Berkeley High School

Sam Pasarow, Principal, Berkeley High School

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