The site of the school was previously used as a storage yard for used tires , then became a building materials recycling facility that drew community opposition , especially after it was used to store some 600,000 tons of concrete ruins ( standing some 60 feet high ) from a portion of the Santa Monica Freeway that collapsed in the 1994 Northridge earthquake . Linda Esperanza Marquez , for whom the school is named , is a community activist who fought to have the site ( which she called the " mountain of death " ) cleared and reused
1994 Northridge earthquake
1994 Northridge earthquake
Linda Esperanza Marquez High School