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Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit Center and Firestorm Memorial Garden archive, 1991-2021.
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Title:
Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit Center and Firestorm Memorial Garden archive, 1991-2021Creator/Contributor:
Piper, Gordon, creator, creator.Abstract:
Reports, correspondence, receipts, project proposals, contracts, permits, specifications, and building and landscaping plans
for the construction of the Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit Center and Firestorm Memorial Garden, built to commemorate
the 1991 East Bay Hills fire and the fire's victims. Includes materials related to the work of the North Hills Landscaping
Committee, who researched and promoted fire resistance vegetation and vegetation management to prevent fires in the East Bay
Hills. Also contains community fire safety materials, newspaper clippings, and a manuscript recounting the events of the fire.
Date:
1991 (issued)Subject:
Oakland-Berkeley Hills Fire, 1991Fires -- California -- East Bay
Fires
California -- East Bay
Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit Center.
Firestorm Memorial Garden.
Piper, Gordon -- Archives
Note:
Gift of Susan and Gordon Piper; 2021.
Gateway Emergency Preparedness Exhibit Center and Firestorm Memorial Garden archive, BANC MSS 2022/119, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
videocassettes.drawings (visual works)
Drawings
Blueprints.
Drawings.
Dessins.
Physical Description:
print
4 (1 7 1 1
Language:
English