Finally, Help is on the Way ...Sort of
The next day, officials went around to various neighborhoods in the city with bullhorns, announcing that there would be a rescue effort to take non-residents off the newly formed island of San Francisco to locations in the East Bay, moving them by ferry boats, delivering them to the Red Cross stations, some as far away inland as 15 miles. Red Cross chapters throughout the country had sent personnel to the bay area and they were settling in to locations that had little damage from the quake, as far as Sacramento and Nevada. It had taken days to mobilize everyone and come up with enough food and clothing to be sure they could take care of the predicted thousands of refugees.
Those who wanted to leave were instructed to leave any vehicles and walk or u
