Oakland Ca Government Agencies

It began with a rash of "heart attack calls" to the Oakland Police Department. Then people began arriving on foot at hospital emergency rooms throughout the Bay Area. Then came calls from cities and towns to state emergency services officials for fire engines and helicopters. The National Guard mobilized its emergency operations within 20 minutes of the first earthquake rumblings. Twenty-seven-thousand National Guardsmen were placed on alert.

Al Davis agreed Monday to accept the richest deal ever given a sports franchise and return his Raiders to Oakland in 1992, a decade after he beat the National Football League in court for the right to play in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Within hours, both the Oakland City Council and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors had approved the deal--the council, by a 5-3 vote with one abstention, and the supervisors, with a 3-1 vote, also with one abstention.

Al Davis agreed Monday to accept the richest deal ever given a sports franchise and return his Raiders to Oakland in 1992, a decade after he beat the National Football League in court for the right to play in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Within hours, both the Oakland City Council and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors had approved the deal--the council, by a 5-3 vote with one abstention, and the supervisors, with a 3-1 vote, also with one abstention.

It began with a rash of "heart attack calls" to the Oakland Police Department. Then people began arriving on foot at hospital emergency rooms throughout the Bay Area. Then came calls from cities and towns to state emergency services officials for fire engines and helicopters. The National Guard mobilized its emergency operations within 20 minutes of the first earthquake rumblings. Twenty-seven-thousand National Guardsmen were placed on alert.