Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 6

6 Oakland Tribune, Thursday, Dec. 9, 1943 CITY STREETS LITTERE WITH GLASS; DUCKS DESERT LAKE MERRITT HAVEN 1800 Acres Burned, In Marsh Creek Area CONCORD, Dec, Fire of Unknown origin in the "heavily Wooded Marsh Creek area burned for six hours over 1800 acres of Mature FIRE SWEEPS WIDE AREA, PERILS RESIDENCES HERE; CMS ROUTED GARBAGE DISPOSAL -PLANT WRECKED Chattered ilete glass windows, dismembered trees, high-voltage power line poles and pancaked billboards littered East Four St. Mary's Cadets Battle With Fire St. Mary's Pre-Flight cadets responded more than ISO strong to aid in controlling the threatening hill-district fire. In crews of 50, the cadets, under command of officers, were placed at strategic points, armed with shovels and picks and serving as auxiliary aides to regularly-manned fire equipment Along the Upper Broadway Ter teenth Street from San Leandro to Lake Merritt this morning as one and brush land before it Was Continued from frags 1 Included in the freak damage along East Fourteenth Street was a badly battered hew automobile which caught the full force of a splintering window in the Dana-Frane showrooms at 29h Avenue.

One chain store grocery window had been shattered, spewing apples, oranges and pear? out onto the sidewalk. Another large market's Drougm unaer control. No buildings were burned as tha three hours over an area of some 80 result of last night's gale. Lake Merritt itself was a minia turt racjflC iea, high waves pound Cooper, No one was injured, and there are no homes near the burned the Orinda Volunteer Department came in as the blaze moved over quart miles. Streets long after daylight ai they rushed assistance to tha men fighting the blaze in tha hills.

The garbage disposal fire was brought under control by 5 a.m. but ing Ufa Twelfth Street dam, wind. fire swept across the Keller, Bet-tencourt, Ward and Crocker Three fire departments, from the hills. The Orinda firemen were forced to withdraw before the As residents ol the bill area Watched It warily, In East Oakland saw tha second blaze erupt whipped salt spray lashing halfway acifcss" Twelfth Street, and small area. Wind Blows Flames from-fire-Across-Road heavy, sliding metal doors had only after it had wreaked damage flames, and called for help from boats derelict onjthe shore.

The Kwn hi-eaiting fltepiay The Walnut nal -Walnut Creek, and xover. what-seemfrrt to them to and neatly turning on a water faucet race district, they worked at dig tinez, battled it. and a large detachment of prisoners from the only signs 01 lire on the Jake were the- White swans riding out the be two square blocks. Many persons alongside the meat counter. who directed operations from the ging fire trails in preventive meas department started for the blaze, but was called back when a four- thought it was the Oakland Airport storm at anchor.

MARTINEZ, Dec. 0 A Wind-fanned fire in the city dump, in the tule land of the Associated Marsh Creek jail farm were sent that was turninc. ures to stem the spread of. brush city hall, said his men were eanai-csDced because the fire in the hills A "nature's" storm warning was to help bring it under In the meantime, half a dozen noticed at 9 p.m. yesterday after The fire was brought Under con-.

acre grass fire broke out near the edge of town. Oakland sent out 11 pieces of Storm Warnings Up LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8. UF The and timber fires to residential areas. mailer fires broke out In the Oak jumped from one area to another with the SDeed of lightning.

Roads noon when flights of from 80 to trol shortly before midnight. 100 ducks began taking off from Oil Co. refinery tt Avon, was battled by firemen for two hours before it was brought under control last night. At times the fire was blown across the highway, threatening to and streets did not serve as fire' First reports of the fire were land area. Fire departments from surrounding cities, preparing, to Weather Bureau announced that storm warnings for the next 24 equipment, including fire engines, tank wagons, a hose wagon and breaks, he said, because they were In addition, the Pre-Flight boys cleared highways of blown-down trees.

Including, many huge eucalyptus. the Lake Merritt preserve and heading in a southwesterly answer the Oakland alarm and give Made to the Solano sheriff's office which in turn notified the Contra Costa sheriff's filled with tree limbs and branches hours were hoisted today from Conception to San Diego. spread. thrown down by the wind. supply trucks, and then called on St.

Mary's Navy Pre-Flight School for Fifty-three cadets were ordered out to help the civilian fire-fighters. aid, found themselves involved with fires in their own localities. WIND Or QALt FORCE leiWlnd blew in gale propor- Martinez" Power Is Cut Off by Wind Looking for GIFT IDESP Come in, Write or Phone for the Schwartz Grodin Gift Book Fred Echstein, 50, of 2525Richie Hons over Alameda, Contra Costa and San Francisco Counties. Win MARTINEZ, Dec. 9.

Martinez dows were smashed, trees were was without electric power eariy Street, a fireman, fell exhausted as the blaze swept through the pine-needled hills and was treated at Merritt Hospital. felled and power lines draped over this morning as one of the direct results of the heavy wind storm which swept this area. o4 Stanley Kinsman, 82, of 4Z9-B The sheriffs office received re 41st Street, an auxiliary policeman, suffered a heart attack while di recting traffic and was taken to ports of scores of trees blown down and a number power failures, including one between Martinez and Merritt Hospital. FEW INJURIES REPORTED the streets. One of the worst hazards of the night was the grounded power lines.

Residents of San Francisco and the Peninsula could see the Alameda County flames from their homes and the Bay Bridge was filled with, traffic as curiotiity seekers headed for Oakland. Oakland police were so busy with 'their routine fire traffic they had to call in auxiliary policemen from the Civilian Defense force. The auxiliary police were mustered at local stations and then dispatched Other than these, few injuries were reported. The odor of burning eucalyptus Port Costa. Ono power pole which was blown down started a grass fire which was put out by the Martinez Fire Department.

Soldiers, Sailors Aid Fire Fighters hung over the city for hours and jittery firemen rushed to answer alarms that rang in constantly throughout the day. Oakland teople. who spent nan to the places they were jneeded 9. Scores-e-f soldiers and sailors atationed- near Point San Pablo fought aide by side with three companies from the Richmond Fire Department early the night watching the two bie fires, started fo work this morning through streets littered with broken glass, torn awnings and damaged business buildings. TRAINS HALTED A roof blown off a house at Yerba Buena Avenue and Hollis Street held up San Francisco Key trains for more than an hour.

Fire engines roaued through the today to subdue a brush firej(at most. Hundreds of residents 'In the hill areas were aroused by the auxiliary off'-ers and told to pack their clothing and get out. At that time, the fire threatened to sweep all of the homes above Mountain Boulevard. FIREMEN DRIVEN BACK The Berkeley Fire Department rushed companies to the scene and Point San pa bio. The fire, whippeUr high winds, burned over a large section of the hill area for more tnan three hours, according to Fire Chief William P.

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a fire from inciner ports today until a reduction in the velocity of last night's gale made ator sparks set fire to a lumber pile in the Hummel Manufacturing operations safe.Turport officials an, nounced this morning. Company, at Seventh and canton No landings were made, after 11 Streets, causing $1000 damage. FIREMAN INJURED o'clock last night at the Oakland airport where the. wind whipped unobstructed across the Oakland tide flats, at times reaching a 65- Lieut Emmett Lampson of the Berkeley Fire Department was hmileper-hour velocity. treated at the Berkeley" Hospital for cuts sustained when he broke Military planes were severely hi the Wnddat Canyon area before Berkeley firemen, the Park Fire Department and 155 soldiers were able to control the blaze.

Two companies of the Berkeley Fire Department remained to extinguish embers while two other companies were sent to assist the Oakland department. RESIDENCE MENACED The fire in Tilden Parle centered near Lake Anza, in almost the same location that the flO.OOO.OOOfire of 1923 started. The residqjffal district near the park was threatened by fires started from falling wires, but no serious damage was done al-i though residents left the area. Assistant Chief Laurence Buch-enery and Deputy Chief Bert Le-Strange conducted the firefighting through a window of the building, buffeted, occasioning damage to at least three planes. One lost a wing At Sixth and Gilman Streets the wind blew over a wall of the Fed, float another had a wing broken eril Public Housing Project supply and a third suffered a smashed pro building, blocking the street.

Fallen trees and broken wires blocked peller when driven into-a revetment wall. Naval and Army personnel managed to secure all equipment many other Berkeley streets tern With sandbags and tractors. porarily, and a eucalyptus tree which fell on the home of Howard One freak occurrence at the port came when a plane was blown out M. Leggett, 7 Columbia Circle, was of its hangar, spun in a half circle cut away by firemen. and neatly blown back into its stall without scratching its war paint Frequent interruptions in the electric power service at the port, of brief duration, were followed at New Fire on Mount Diablo Area Is Raging Uncontrolled 6:25 a.m.

by a complete blackout Of all facilities. Auxiliary equipment failed to function for more than an hour. Naval. fire-fighting facilities were CONCORD, Dec. 9 A second dispatched ffom the Oakland air port to the Oakland scavenger dis loosened live wires near the Guy Blackwell Mortuary.

Planes at the Concord Army Airdrome were anchored to ground posal plant fire two miles away, but was unable to augment city fire- bolts in concrete runways to secure fighting equipment due to the lack of water. Broken power lines to the disposal plant disrupted the pumping station: them from the high winds. It could not be whether there was any damage to them. At Walnut Creek a four-acre outbreak of a grass and brush fire on the shoulder of Mount Diablo sent, firefighters again in that area this morning after thfey had brought under control last night the largest blaze in the central Contra Costa County section. The fire was burning in the direction of the Nortonville-Somer-ville area.

Concord had eight minor fires between 2 a.roi and 7 a.m.; the largest in the basement of the Mock Drygoods Store on Mt Diablo Street In' the center of the eity melted copper was spattered by storm- Wind Blows 85 Miles FARMINGTON, Utah, Dec. 9. OF) High winds howling down the Great Salt Lake Valley reached an 85-mile-per-hour velocity today and virtually all schools in Davis County were closed. The gale ripped away one corner of the Utah National Guard Armory at Bountiful. grass fire swept within a few feet of 16 homes in the" Walnut Heights section before it was brought under control.

The burned area was between Carmel Road, the railroad track, city sewer farm and Redwood Avenue. The fire broke out at 9:25 ajiw was extinguished by 7:30 am. Quick repair work prevented any damage from power wires blown down at Pacheco. jP ar jut w'mi i. i EtYAMtHW fir J' Broadway, San Pahloj6lh 16: CLencourt 4321 ft-? -r( IN.

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