Claim: The Claremont Canyon Conservancy grew out of a citizen-based task force formed after the 1991 Oakland Berkeley Firestorm (large suburban wildland–urban interface conflagration) and according to their , over 500 member-households support the conservancy, as of 2012.
Evidence: The conservancy grew out of a citizen-based task force formed after the 1991 Oakland Berkeley Firestorm. The Oakland firestorm of 1991 was a large suburban wildland–urban interface conflagration that occurred on the hillsides of northern Oakland, California, and southeastern Berkeley over the weekend of October 19–20, 1991, before being brought under full control on October 23. According to their , over 500 member-households support the conservancy, as of 2012.