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It's late morning on Sunday, October the 20th, 1991, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California. Just a couple of hours earlier, the sun shone against a dazzling, cloudless stretch of azure sky.

Now, day seems to have morphed into night.

The brilliant blue expanse subsumed beneath a suffocating shroud of harsh,

dense smoke. Ash and smoldering embers swirl through the darkened air, carried along by

erratic gusts of hot, dry wind from the nearby Diablo Mountain Range.

In Oakland, just across the bay from San Francisco,

everything seems baked in an eerie orange glow.

Whaling sirens fill the city as emergency vehicles race along winding roads speeding into the surrounding hills.

Here, where the slopes are densely covered in tall ancient trees and luscious vegetation,

a wildfire is devastating the landscape.

It tears through the foliage and the undergrowth, gorging itself

on the greenery as it sweeps across the undulating terrain, leaving nothing but charred skeletal

trunks and scorched earth in its wake. It's spreading with lethal, terrifying speed. On one of the forested slopes on the outskirts of the city,

blithely unaware of quite how fast the fire is moving,

reporter Rob Roth and cameraman Nick Sores watch

as blazing spies shoot up across the hillside in front of them.

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