CityTalk:LA - A MySafe:LA Podcast.
What's going on in Los Angeles related to disasters and the history of the City of Angels? What have we learned about the major earthquakes in our past, and how does that affect the future? Why do people continue to die in house fires? How do we live through this bizarre COVID-19 pandemic? Listen to our experts as we share valuable stories about disasters in the history of Los Angeles - and explain how you can be better prepared to survive the next big disaster!
CityTalk:LA - A MySafe:LA Podcast.
My Quake Story - #5
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Cameron Barrett, Joseph Castro
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Season 1
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Episode 5
Education Director Cameron Barrett continues MySafe:LA's recognition of the 20th anniversary of the Northridge Earthquake in this episode when she interviews retired LAFD Chief Deputy Joseph Castro. In 1994 Castro was a station commander in Hollywood, where destruction was widespread following the temblor. He remembers he and his crew having to fight their way out of their station house when their apparatus bay doors jammed.