The Californian Earthquake That Shook San Francisco | Critical Rescue | Real Responders

[@aliciaaldarondo4535]

What a great fireman saveing this women from the house. He is truly a hero. God bless him.

[@simflyr1957]

I spent 5 years as a volunteer FF/EMT in a rural area of N.E. Ohio. I "liked" this video, not because of the event, but it is such an awesome documentary. Some of the decisions that had to be made were so traumatic. Life and death hanging in the balance show how fragile life can be. The next minute isn't guaranteed...

[@reneehanks5202]

I was there, on the Ft. Org Base when this hit. I was holding a baby, when I saw I-5 started to roll. At first I was stuck in awe, my sister told me to get in the door frame. She pull me away from the Glass door way and push me and baby to the floor, then we felt it hit us. When it was over and we were fine, I had a baby and two small dogs in my lap. My sister was on the counter with her feet against the fridge and freezer to keep it from falling on us. The baby was still a sleep, and I was crying. I'm from the Midwest, and it really scared me so much I could not sleep for a long time. We had tremors all night long. Some as big as 5-6 on the scale. I was able to shut off the Gas and Water to our unit and a lot of other unit's around ours. Here in the Midwest you learn this because we live in Tornado Ally. On the Base we did not lose anyone that I know of. I'm so THANKFUL!!!

[@80sbreed87]

Ok......really?? Cutting a dead body in half with a chainsaw then an amputation, all while squatting in a 3ft death trap?! Now that’s just amazing!!!

[@mattkaustickomments]

Wow what a tearjerker- incredible bravery!!

[@rubinturner9053]

Amazing work by these humans in the worst life has to cope through.

[@watchgoose]

that surgeon did a magnificent thing under horrid circumstances.

[@smallfries3462]

My uncle is a surgeon and he regularly takes part of in serves mass catastrophe emergencies and he worked in the army during Vietnam in tents operating on soldiers I remember him telling if your ok you help those who are injured and not to panic

[@mcgirlletsgo7135]

watchgoose I like your pic! I love horses!

[@mattkaustickomments]

Those poor kids. 😪

[@wendyh3891]

Awesome work done by each & every crew member! God Bless you all & stay safe ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you all

[@almalee4362]

I remember this! My eyes were glued to to the news/reports.

[@nicoleberinger5100]

In CERT training, I believe this earthquake was cited as one of the disasters that really helped lead to the formation of guidelines for volunteer responders to help for events such as this where there is more than what the emergency systems can handle

[@alixena9340]

Good! People will always want to help, and there are some people who have equal or greater knowledge and skills than the emergency services in uniform. Never underestimate the power of the volunteer.

[@cyndifoore7743]

I wish they would have done more of a follow up with the kids and how they are now.

[@stephanieritter9285]

I remember this day perfectly..on a date at a pizza place in Holladay Utah.....saw it on their t.v.....my best friend in San Fran.....calling for hours....so scared..they wee at the library....book flying off shelves...then the shelve's...they ducked under the tables.....so horrific as they attempted to save people under the bridge..cried for days..then the movie came out....cried even more..to all the hero's and victims....NEVER FORGOTTEN

[@tm13tube]

These men are brave. So brave.

[@tirzhaprinsloo2774]

A big Hero's thankfulness for the rescuers that were helping those people that were trapped under the bridge as well as for Sherra cox it was minutes between live and death. I do hope the city planners change the plans in building dubble bridges were the knew there can be earthquakes.

[@vickeywaldo3186]

I always hated being on that lower deck of the Cypress Freeway, it gave me the creeps. I always thought "what if there was an earthquake now?" I never drove over it that often but when I did that was the first thing that came to my mind. I lived in San Ramon at the time. It shook pretty hard there too. For days I wore my clothes to bed.

[@karenlm9062]

Loved it when the firefighter said he couldn't wait to get back to work so he could sit down to listen to the ball game.

[@LUCiFER-LYNN]

I'm so happy I live in the middle of Canada the worst we deal with is -40 winters.... 🥶

[@beckyshock3099]

There's not enough money in the WORLD to entice me to live in California, or anywhere on the west coast.

[@mcgirlletsgo7135]

Omg!! Imagine cutting up a dead body using a chainsaw in front of a child! Also knowing u could also die at any time!

[@vickeywaldo3186]

I don't think he was aware of it.

[@tm13tube]

By then the child was sedated and the girl had left.

[@lionessprincessbear2174]

The guy asking the woman trapped-“where were you in relation to your house?” & she said “south west, above.” (He reminds me of the NOW Older Harrison Ford).

[@victoriatrinh8380]

I was thinking the same thing!! Yes, totally Harrison Ford! Haha

[@j.vi-geant6784]

The two hour movie documentary was fantastic and a crier. They interviewed actual survivors at the end of the movie. This is nearly identical.

[@MsStoneiy]

Hi.. What's the film documentary called? Or is it here on KZbin?

[@twinpower7855]

I remember this earthquake San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's were in the world series.

[@DONNAMOZMUN]

I know i was watching the world series, when the earthquake struck.

[@audrawolff8288]

My friend was on the football field at Lowell High School. He said they watched the entire city "roll" like a giant wave was under it and then set it back down. He was a teenager at the time so at 1st they thought it looked "cool". Then reality set in when they saw cars crashing and buildings crumble down and they became silent. He now lives in the city in the Richmond District and tells me they are overdue for another one and it's always in the back of his mind. Scary stuff.

[@easymac79]

35:51 That's like Walking Dead level of sick right there. I mean, it's the only choice, but da-mn!

[@punker4Real]

wakers we got a 6.4 and 7.1 back to back with a 5.7 in the middle of it couple of min before the 7.1

[@johnnyblade4351]

Major Respect to All Services and Ordinary People who got stuck in.. That's Life !!! I think living under the threat of earthquake everyday might seem Normal but really it's Not !!! A Water supply is an essential requirement. If Water Mains are going to be broken maybe a secondary water supply being hooked up from the bay would be a serious advantage. It might cost Dollar but everything does. Very Moving. In a situation of castatrophe I hope I will react in the same way.. Amazing People

[@azaleagregory3929]

In this situation army iz the best option for help.

[@gbaca07]

All this in 15 seconds?

[@snakebitepellehue]

@@lindam.6782 As a Chilean I can't believe that a "mere" 7.1 lasting only 15 seconds could do so much damage, having survived an 8.8 that was three and a half minutes non-stop. Our buildings are such a good earthquake-proof technology that you might lose a few dishes, but not your home or life.

[@cathyvickers9063]

My mom was watching the baseball game on TV. I was watching Rescue: 911. So she knew before I did. I clearly recall that the show was just going to or coming back from a commercial break. The TV showed the standard clip with a firetruck racing up a San Francisco hill! Then the TV went straight to earthquake coverage, confusing me, making me think it was the next segment! I was in my 20s, in Ohio,

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

I read there was a person who was 8 in 1908 and she was 89 in 1989 God i should have been a maths teacher anyway she survived both

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

When you think about it there was probably more people survived both

[@markarca6360]

I have already watched this in a TV channel in the Philippines before. This was dubbed in the Filipino language and was featured in SOS: Stories of Survival (hosted by Martin Andanar).

[@cynthiasimpson931]

I was at Travis Air Force Base, which was about 70 miles away, when this earthquake hit. I was in a hospital that had been open less than a year; it had been built because the old hospital at the base hadn't been able to be retrofitted for earthquake safety. The new hospital had been built with the latest earthquake safety features, like rubber baffles in the walls and floor, and more I don't know about. I was on the bottom floor of the hospital when the earthquake hit, and the only damage in our department were books falling off my boss' bookcase in his office. Up on the fourth floor, which is the top floor, most of the damage was caused by things falling off shelves. When I finally got to my car, I turned on the radio to listen to the World Series game (Giants fan here), but instead got Al Michaels, the sportscaster, reading news bulletins.

[@cynthiasimpson931]

The boss I worked for a couple of years later told me that she'd just crossed the Oakland Bay Bridge heading toward Hercules when the earthquake hit.

[@jamiedecker7853]

I'm sorry, but when I heard, "When everything goes bad, who you gonna call?" I thought.. Ghostbusters😂😂😂

[@Peace-tk3gr]

Please tell me they stopped using gas for heating!

[@HotRod12667]

I used to live in California. I have been through too many earthquakes. Now I live in Maine. I'll take the nor'easters any day. And wasn't the Cypress freeway called the Nimitz freeway back then?

[@angelaparker4110]

You’d think that calling in water bombers would have been the first command given. A mile square field of straw bales (big round ones, if I remember correctly) went up, inferno style. Within an hour the bombers had it out. But then, the bombers could have…finished…the demolition.

[@norsia1946]

27:26 dude looks like he's about to go fight some huns in WW1

[@barefooboy17]

I survived this

[@MagpieRat]

I'm obviously missing something here... they couldn't find a water source? At the marina? AT A MARINA?

[@emikonagasawa-pijoan1148]

The Marina district is a whole neighborhood in SF between fisherman's warf and the golden gate bridge. Not all of it is right by the water.

[@alainvosselman9960]

Firefighter looks like Al Bundy...lol.

[@pjcat3522]

Gas is our enemy in disaster zones, why do we have it?

[@shaneoneill1396]

Because we like fire

[@mjverostek1278]

>not doing Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits

[@chrisbassett8996]

im confused isn't the marina at waters edge. here that is what marina means

[@nightflyer3242]

The Marina District extends several blocks inland, also the Marine came to be by dumping debris from the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake into the Bay thus created the new land for development.

[@dannygayler90]

How lucky am I , I was in the 1989 quake in Newcastle , ( A few weeks later ) , I was duty at the Hospital boiler station .; I have nver sdeen the earth move like the sea ( waves ) . and where I was there was 5 ton of coal sitting on top of the grate above the coal bunker , I saw 5 ton of coal move rapidly through the grate , then all power went of . It was day time and full emergency procedures were activated , I had a full head of steam in the N0 2 boiler ( 100 psi ) , I had a steam pump ( Weir Pump ) pumping water in the boiler , the fire door was opened and the coal fire within the boiler started to subside . Later on Approx 3 hours later the power came on and after care inspection/s by the Hospital engineer the boiler was deemed safe to restart . A day I will never forget and the after shock of this event still traumatizes me , I never forget this as long as I live !

[@terririckert7069]

Shame you didn't add NSW Australia. Since there are over 100 different "Newcastles" around the world. Very few people WORLD WIDE would even know that Australia has a Newcastle !!!!!!! Newcastle Australia's earthquake was as a DIRECT result of SELFISH GREEDY HUMANS ACTIONS -- IT WAS TRIGGERED BY CHANGES IN TECTONIC FORCES CAUSED BY 200 YEARS OF UNDERGROUND COAL MINING, NEWCASTLE, NSW, AUSTRALIA'S earthquake was ONLY a ML 5.6 (Richter magnitude). I have lived through many California earthquakes, prior to moving to Australia. The 1960 Valdivia in Chile South America, earthquake was 9.6. (10.0 being the highest magnitude). Valdivia, Chile, 22 May 1960 (9.6) ... Prince William Sound, Alaska, 28 March 1964 (9.2) ... Sumatra, Indonesia, 26 December 2004 (9.1) ... Sendai, Japan, 11 March 2011 (9.0) ... Kamchatka, Russia, 4 November 1952 (9.0) ... Bio-bio, Chile, 27 February 2010 (8.8)

[@dannygayler90]

@@terririckert7069 The Newcastle quake was world wide news , So how would people not know it was Newcastle , N.S.W.!

[@ThreeCatsInTheWindow]

Earthquakes are predictable. Watch Dutchsinse on KZbin.

[@taetae6311]

Whats the relation between this channel and wonder? I am seeing lirs if same videos!

[@kramshiron]

Let’s hope 2 tier roads are banned

[@MsJinkerson]

back then I was concerned about the Church of Satan being damaged it was in the area

[@simonmcgrath4112]

Is that a joke? I think that's an awful thing to say and u do no he doesn't exist!!

[@dorasyiem4010]

No one can challenge our Living and powerful GOD, as I can recollect it was only after the ban of sale of the Holy Bible that many threatening and disheartening incidents took place in California but we fail to understand that GOD in HIS own time shows that HE is the King of Kings, the Lord of lords and a Supreme GOD...I am from a commonwealth country.

[@rosemaryauntie3872]

I hope they learnt their lesson... See China they scorned the word of God for years then see....God is the King of Kings