Since we Californians were children we have heard legends of the Great Quake of Ought Six, the massive earthquake that destroyed many buildings throughout the Bay Area. But the quake wasn't the worst of it. It broke a lot of gas mains, and when people tried to light their ovens or turn on the gas in their homes, fires ignited everywhere. Soon the shattered city was an inferno, with huge smoke clouds and a strange wind created by the sucking fires.
Today a hundred years have passed.
A moment of silence for those who died there on April 18, 1906.
