General view of rescue attempts in the Marina District
Emergency workers prop up a collapsed building
General view of a collapsed building
General view of the Marina district disaster zone
Oakland Athletics v San Francisco Giants
Caltrans workers carry materials to be u
Photo shot 22 OCT 89 shows a collapsed p
Cranes surround the Cypress Structure on
San Francisco Marina District circa 1989
Earthquake-damaged buildings in the Marina District of San Francisco, October 17, 1989. (Jonathan Nourok/AFP/Getty Images)
Marina District residents remove possess
Rubble litters the sidewalk on the stree
Rubble litters the sidewalk on the stree
Rubble fills the sidewalk in front of a
Cars sit abandoned 18 October 1989 on th
Firefighters extinguish fire in the Mari
Search and rescue support workers Tim Sc
Search and rescue support workers contin
Two firemen watch, in San Francisco, 18
Food items litter the floor in an aisle
Firemen search for occupants in a heavil
A fireman passes a heavily-damaged build
A military policeman steps over a police
Photo shot on October 22, 1989 shows a c
A rescuer looks at a collapsed house, on
General view of Candlestick Park after the earthquake
General view of debris after the earthquake
General view of debris after the earthquake
1989 World Series: Dejected Fan
1989 World Series
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Guillermo Vega on the front porch of his damaged home in Watsonville. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Forty-two people died in the collapse of the Cypress Structure in Oakland. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Watsonville was badly damaged. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Many houses and smaller outbuildings collapsed and slid in the Santa Cruz Mountains. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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A giant crack opened in front of the Tranbargers' home in the Santa Cruz Mountains. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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A friend helps homeowners move belongings from their damaged house in Los Gatos. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Search dogs hunt for survivors in a building at Bay and Divisadero in San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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The biggest fire in San Francisco's Marina District burned at Beach and Divisadero Streets. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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California Highway Patrol officers were among the first to arrive at the collapse of the Cypress section of Interstate 880 in West Oakland. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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The San Francisco Fire Department had trained on the Portable Water Supply System only one week before the earthquake. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Broken water mains left San Francisco firefighters with precious little water to fight the flames in the Marina District. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Not only did a section of the upper deck of the Bay Bridge fall, it badly damaged the deck below. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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The San Francisco Fire Department used a unique Portable Water Supply System to pump water from the bay to fight the Marina fire. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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The force of the quake threw this house at North Point and Divisadero out into the street. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Baseball legend Joe DiMaggio waited in line like everyone else for assistance at the Marina Middle School. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Buck Helm's Chevy Sprint is lifted out of the wreckage of the Cypress freeway. Helm was the last survivor to be rescued, but he died a month later. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Buildings standing on landfill were particularly vulnerable to collapse in the shaking. Ground floors wound up subterranean. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Anxious commuters got out of their cars on the Bay Bridge while they waited for instructions on how to get off the bridge safely. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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One driver was killed on the Bay Bridge when she was misinformed about which way to go to get off the bridge. (San Francisco Chronicle)
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Many Marina buildings, like this one at Jefferson and Divisadero, had to be destroyed. (San Francisco Chronicle)
