Chilling Footage of the 1989 Cypress Freeway Collapse - a podcast by Smithsonian Channel

The Oakland fire department rushed to the scene of the Cypress Freeway, after the 1989 San Francisco Earthquake hits. They were greeted by a catastrophe of collapsed concrete and trapped cars.

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