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2. Ghost Ship warehouse fire - Wikipedia

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   On December 2, 2016, at about 11:20 p.m. PST, a fire started in a former warehouse that had been unlawfully converted into an artist collective with living spaces (named the Ghost Ship) in Oakland, California which was hosting a concert with 80-100 attendees. The blaze killed 36 people, making it the deadliest fire in the history of Oakland.

3. Mission District, San Francisco - Wikipedia

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   Area codes. 415/628. The Mission District ( Spanish: Distrito de la Misión ), [4] commonly known as the Mission ( Spanish: La Misión ), [5] is a neighborhood in San Francisco, California. One of the oldest neighborhoods in San Francisco, the Mission District's name is derived from Mission San Francisco de Asís, built in 1776 by the Spanish. [6]

4. Donner Pass - Wikipedia

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   39°18′52″N120°19′37″W [1] Location in California. Donner Pass is a 7,056-foot-high (2,151 m) [2] mountain pass in the northern Sierra Nevada, above Donner Lake and Donner Memorial State Park about 9 miles (14 km) west of Truckee, California. Like the Sierra Nevada themselves, the pass has a steep approach from the east and a gradual ...

5. History of San Francisco - Wikipedia

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   Ross Alley in San Francisco's Chinatown 1898. (Photo by Arnold Genthe). It was during the 1860s to the 1880s when San Francisco began to transform into a major city, starting with massive expansion in all directions, creating new neighborhoods such as the Western Addition, the Haight-Ashbury, Eureka Valley, the Mission District, culminating in the construction of Golden Gate Park in 1887.

6. Hillsborough, California - Wikipedia

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   1659735, 2412752. Website. www .hillsborough .net. Hillsborough is an incorporated town in San Mateo County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is located 17 miles (27 km) south of San Francisco on the San Francisco Peninsula, bordered by Burlingame to the north, San Mateo to the east, Highlands-Baywood Park to the ...

7. Fort Mason - Wikipedia

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   The SS Jeremiah O'Brien, a World War II era Liberty ship, at Fort Mason.. The San Francisco Port of Embarkation, a new command, was created on 6 May 1932 under Brigadier General Charles S. Lincoln with headquarters at Fort Mason assuming command over the Army Transport Service, the San Francisco General Quartermaster Depot at Fort Mason and the Overseas Replacement and Discharge Service at ...