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Re:Sycamore Canyon Fire of '77
We live a few hundred feet from the house you mention. Very close to Cold Spring School. I remember when I first arrived in the Bay Area, in '85. We drove over the Bay Bridge and up Highway 24 to a right on Highway 13 (Warren Freeway), then off to stay at a friend's house on Thornhill. I couldn't believe that houses could be perched so high on hillsides. I stared up at the lights of the houses on Hiller Highlands, which has the best views of both Oakland and The City, looking right across the length of the Bay Bridge. I thought about how much I'd love to live there. In 1991 everything surrounding that intersection, including all the houses on Hiller Highlands and most of upper Broadway, where all the houses looked so perfectly perched in the trees on the hillside, were burned to the ground. The fire even leaped Lake Temescal and burned the other side of the highway. Now it's all rebuilt, and starting to look again like nothing happened. Everything within sight of my little observatory here, save our immediate neighborhood, has burned in the last 40 years — including the whole vast wall of the Santa Ynez mountains. Ah well. Hey, stop by when you come to Westmont.
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