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Photos: The Loma Prieta earthquake’s devastation

An injured person receive help near the collapsed Cypress structure in Oakland. (Staff Archives)

Santa Cruz, CA October 19, 1989: An ever-expanding network of fissures in the Santa Cruz Mountains confounded geologists, but even one of the largest couldn't stop Bob Meyer, a troubleshooter for Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (Judy Griesedeick/Staff Archives)

October 19, 1989 Oakland, CA: Damage to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after the Loma Prieta earthquake. (Tom Van Dyke/Staff Archives)

Military police guard a collapsed building on Divisidero and Beach streets in San Francisco, on Oct. 18, 1989, a day after the Loma Prieta earthquake. (Nick Lammers/Staff Archives)

A car crushed by a dislodged building in San Francisco after the Loma Prieta earthquake. (Staff Archives)

San Francisco, CA October 17, 1989: A fire roars in the Marina District after the Loma Prieta earthquake. (Bob Pepping/Staff Archives)

Oakland, CA October 17, 1989 - Erick Carlson is evacuated from the Cypress Freeway.(Michael Macor/Staff Archives)

Homes in San Francisco's Marina District burned in a fire after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. (Bay Area News Group Archives)

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER 19, 1989: The long slow process of removal of bodies involved the removal of chunks and slabs of concrete to extricate them. (Cap Carpenter/Staff Archives)

San Francisco, CA October 17, 1989: Oakland Athletics players wait in confusion at Candlestick Park just after the Loma Prieta earthquake suspended World Series Game 3. (Karen T. Borchers/Staff Archives)

Oakland, CA October 17, 1989: Rescue workers extract a victim of the Cypress Freeway collapse. (Richard Wisdom/Staff Archives)

Aerial view of the collapsed section of the Cypress structure on October 19, 1989. (Staff Archives)

In Santa Cruz County, the Loma Prieta earthquake destroyed hundreds of homes and damaged thousands. On Myrtle Street in Santa Cruz, the earthquake caved in part of a wall, leaving a gaping hole in Kelle Oblinger's rental. (Karen Borchers/Staff Archives)

Rescuers push up a ladder to reach the collapsed upper deck of the Cypress structure in Oakland on October 17, 1989, shortly after the Loma Prieta earthquake. (Tom Van Dyke/Staff Archives)

Onlookers gather at a collapsed apartment building at Cervantes and Alhambra streets in San Francisco's Marina district where three were found dead. (Staff Archives)

Oakland, CA October 17, 1989: Rescue workers and police enter the scene of destruction where the Interstate 880 and 80 interchange collapsed. (Ton Van Dyke/San Jose Mercury News)

Residents and firefighters battle the fire in the Marina district of San Francisco after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. (Tom Duncan/Staff Archives)

The Cypress structure in Oakland collapsed during the Loma Prieta earthquake on October 17, 1989. (Staff Archives)