![25 years later: Oakland hills ripe for another firestorm](https://uphelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sfchron.jpg)
![25 years later: Oakland hills ripe for another firestorm](https://uphelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/sfchron.jpg)
Twenty-five years after a horrific firestorm killed 25 people and wiped out nearly 3,500 homes in the Oakland hills, the conditions are ripe once again for a similar — if not worse — disaster. The 1991 inferno led to improved policies and equipment for fire…