SCVNews.com | March 12: St. Francis Dam Disaster Commemoration Event, Free on Zoom
* Passcode: 835760 The Dam Disaster The former dam in San Francisquito Canyon, part of the L.A. City aqueduct system, collapsed just before midnight Monday, March 12, 1928. Nearly 13 billion gallons of water rushed over sleepy residents from Saugus to the sea. An estimated 411 people perished in the flood. It was California’s second-deadliest disaster after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Here’s an excerpt from dam historian Alan Pollack’s “St. Francis Dam Disaster: An Extended Timeline” from the SCV History website: “March 13, 1928, 12:03 a.m: Five minutes after the St. Franc...
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