Berkeley Burns 1923 – Channel own songs

At the beginning of the 20th century, North Berkeley, California, had been chosen by a group of renowned architects, including Bernard Maybeck and Julia Morgan, as the ideal setting for implementing a pioneering project, homes made in a natural style, with a design that blend in with its surroundings, with unpainted redwood tile roofs, raw redwood interiors with rustic beams and minimal embellishments. On September 17, 1923, a small fire spread over the grass of Wildcat Canyon Hill, due to the exceptionally dry weather that day, the flames spread quickly reaching the Berkeley houses, which with their rustic wooden design, burned in a Astonishing speed, leaving more than 500 homes destroyed, miraculously there were no deaths in the fire that left more than 4,000 people homeless. This video shows real footage from the day of the fire.