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

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🗓️ 20 October 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.4	Once upon a time, economics was a largely theoretical field, more prone to introspective conjectures about how the world might work than data-driven studies demonstrating how it actually does.
1:01.3	But over the last 30 years, the dismal science looks a lot more sciencey.
1:05.8	And our guest, David Carr, a UC Berkeley labor economist, is one major reason why.
1:10.7	He was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics last week for pushing the field to be more important. David Carr, a UC Berkeley labor economist, is one major reason why.
1:10.8	He was awarded a Nobel Prize in economics last week for pushing the field to be more empirical
1:15.8	and experiment-driven.
1:17.2	We'll talk with him about his substantive findings on minimum wage and immigration and what
1:21.3	they say about our current policy debates.
1:23.6	But first, Mayor Libby Schaff joins us to talk about the Oakland fire storm, which occurred 30 years ago today.
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