Building the Caldecott Tunnel
Building the Caldecott Tunnel

Author: Mary Solon & Mary McCosker

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467131814

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Today, the Caldecott Tunnel connects Alameda and Contra Costa Counties, located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The original two bores of this tunnel opened in 1937, the same year as the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, and changed Contra Costa County from an area of small rural communities into one of growing suburbs. But this was not the first tunnel to connect these counties. The Kennedy Tunnel, opened in 1903, was accessed by steep and winding roads and located several hundred feet above today's tunnel. A third bore of the Caldecott Tunnel was opened in 1964 and a long-awaited fourth bore in late 2013. The tunnels have not been without disaster and tragedy over their hundred-plus years of existence, yet they remain an integral part of the commercial, social, and historic fabric of the region.

Design Fires in Road Tunnels
Design Fires in Road Tunnels

Author: Igor Y. Maevski

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 0309143306

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TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) 415: Design Fires in Road Tunnels information on the state of the practice of design fires in road tunnels, focusing on tunnel fire dynamics and the means of fire management for design guidance.

Oakland Fire Department
Oakland Fire Department

Author: Geoffrey Hunter

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738529684

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For over 150 years, brave firefighters have battled to preserve the lives and property of the citizens of Oakland. Beginning in 1853, volunteer engine and hook and ladder companies organized and the Oakland Fire Department formed in 1869. Until 1922, teams of magnificent horses pulled steamers belching black smoke and embers, with firemen holding on for dear life. These gallant fire horses were as much firefighters as the rugged men of Oakland who extinguished blazes with leather hoses and brass nozzles. After waging an internal battle of racial integration--a 35-year struggle that began in 1920--the Oakland Fire Department became one of the first in the nation to hire women firefighters beginning in 1980.

Endangered Dreams
Endangered Dreams

Author: Kevin Starr

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780195118025

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Kevin Starr's portrait of California during the Great Depression is both detailed and panoramic. The study offers a vivid look at the personalities and events that shaped a decade of explosive tension.