Fires in this area the same area on that they dealt with fires up this afternoon the fact is right now no homes damaged no one was hurt. All these fires contained. Matt now here showing where the but fires burning done in canyon park west of highway 13 along park boulevard. Steep terrain into the canyon at making reaching some of those fires not that much more challenging. And any fires and the Oakland Hills bring back some very bad memories tragic day in bay area history. October 20th its 1991 a fire started ended up killing 25 people burning nearly 4000 homes. The blaze that took three days to put out and all the todays fires much smaller quickly contained people who live in the area and no. 91 are certainly scared i saw smoke and flames helicopters we call the police addis scared a look like it was going to travel down i did not know about the fuss was supposed my house. At the daughter resent dedicatee grabs supplies and we headed out. it seems to be under control right now Oakland
We continue with our history of casper. This is American History tv. We are the middle of the salt the placefield, at it was probably first discovered. Right behind me is salt creek. The spring is on both sides of the creek. That is where there was a spring of oil. Oil was coming to the surface. In 1889, a fellow named shannon came out here. He was from a Pennsylvania Oil company and sell is going on and drilled the well three miles north of here. That was the first well in this area. It produced 10 barrels of oil per day. Speculation in this area really when rampant and there was a lot of claims made and leases and that type of thing. So, that was the beginning of the great salt creek oilfield. First started, it was a cattle town. Cattle and sheep ranching was real big. When oil started, that was when it started to grow. There was such an influx of people. You got the instant wealth of the oilfield. Whereas, before that, it was a half dozen ranchers who would come to the general store
The area into the national spotlight. The teapot dome scandal was probably the most significant president ial scandal in American History in the 20th century up until watergate, anyway. It implicated members of the cabinet. It certainly could have implicated president harding, had he lived. It became a rather notorious event, even today as they are preparing to sell off the teapot dome Naval Petroleum reserve. Soon after the turnofthecentury when the u. S. Navy was starting to shift from those very clunky coalburning battleships to oilburning ships, it occurred to various officials in the government that we might run out of oil. What is to happen if suddenly we are in the middle of a war with a fleet that is being powered by ships andfired suddenly we do not have any oil . So, the decision was made by the department of the navy to go out and find on public land some known oil reserves that were still on public land, set them aside from exploration and development, and in essence, save
The day now since that announcement and Nelson Mandelas house. He was taking to the streets in south africa to pay tribute to nelson and get out. Indeed the state they were still trying to come to terms with the death of disco boogie death not they say theyve accepted teased and not the umpiring to carry him now we know that he will be getting on the fifteenth of this and that in his hometown of london. What would happen on the latin from the heavens to the thirteenth. Hes one one nineteen states in pretoria. And on the tenth of peace and that it will be a national day of mourning and this sunday the eighth of december. It will be a national day of prayer and reflection isnt a consumer has called on South Africans to use this day to reflect on the night of nelson and data what he has made two South Africans and one he has made to the wolves. Soak the announcement was made last night this morning people were still coming to tennis not be getting to be any the father of the nation the ci
In danger. Good evening. That fire is burning in mendocino county, and three firefighters are recovering from burns received when the fire turned unpredictable last night. After being treated at two hospitals, they were released and taken directly to cal fire head quarters. You have spoken with the chiefs reporter yes. We have learned the injured were part of a strike team sent by cal fire to fight the wildfires up north last saturday. Yesterday they were moved to mendocino and just received their assignment when they ran into trouble. A desperate fight to halt the spread of this fire. They arrived here today and received their assignment and one half hour after arriving the fires path turned, injuring a total of eight they are all veteran firefighters, two male and two females reporter because the drought turned the forest into virtual tinder, the fires behavior was not predictable we have to be cautious as professionals and when the professionals get caught its cause for alarm its un