Volume 49 - No. 10
By Friedrich Gomez
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES, IN THE PREDAWN HOURS. It is still dark in Los Angeles. Most residents are still deep asleep. No one knew what was about to happen. It was January 17, 1994. Very soon, millions of Angelenos would wake up to a living nightmare at precisely 4:31 a.m. The Paper - 760.747.7119
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9-1-1 Emergency Dispatcher: “Fire Paramedics, can I help you.” Woman in Distress: “Help me! I can’t see anything! Please help, we had an earthquake!” Dispatcher: “Listen to me – calm down. Because the fire department will come out, okay?” Woman: “The earthquake!! The earthquake hit my house, it’s falling apart!! I don’t know
what to do!!”
Minutes later, Los Angeles KFI Radio Station announcer, Jay Lawrence, takes to the airwaves: “Ladies and gentlemen, we just experienced a real whopper here, especially at the radio station! All I can say is that Los Angeles apparently just had a major, major tremor!” In the darkness of Los Angeles’ vast metropolitan area a city of
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frightened, panic-filled residents pour out into the streets away from their homes, apartments, and various shelters, seeking open space away from crumbling buildings and debris. For many, the memory still persists as if it were only yesterday.
This was no ordinary earth tremor; it would prove to be both deadly and mysterious on a variety of different levels. Powerful seismic shockwaves