Currents Digital Currents January/February 2018 | Page 7

The Way It Was: Safeguarding the
City from a Future Devastation by Fire
On a crisp October day in 1934, San Franciscans converged at Pulgas
Temple to cheer the first Sierra waters pouring into Crystal Springs
Reservoir. The new 160-mile water system—spurred by the 1906
Earthquake and the three days of unstoppable fires that followed—
took 20 years to build. But memories of the 1906 devastation
remained. The sight of that plentiful new water reassured all who
watched that their City would never burn again for lack of it.
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