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Title
Wall of fire burns truck
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Clarke, Ed J
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1956
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph was edited for publication purposes
The caption refers to the Malibu area fires that broke out December 26, 1956 and raged throughout the Santa Monica Mountains from Paradise Cove and Escondido Canyon all the way to the Mulholland Highway near Seminole Hot Springs and Malibu Lake. Just days apart, two more fires were started in the Las Flores Canyon area, to the east, and Lake Sherwood, to the west.
Photograph caption dated December 27, 1956 reads, "Southland's worst fire since 1935 narrowly missed home of Mrs. Alfred Kendrick at 27622 Pacific Coast Highway as it burned through yard and destroyed fire truck in foreground. Three houses one-half mile from this location were burned to ground as fire spread out over 10-mile front fanned by gusts of wind up to 50 miles per hour. Inferno is expected to rage for several days." The article partially reads, "The catastrophic fire which continued to race wildly out of control through the Malibu mountains today threatened to leap over Mulholland Highway near Malibu Lake and burn into the western end of the San Fernando Valley above Calabasas. The fire has already jumped Mulholland Highway at Decker Canyon and advanced west into Ventura County toward the exclusive Lake Sherwood area."; See images #00114917 through #00114926 for all photos in this series.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00114919
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f20_i5
CARL0005307244
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48896
Subject
Fires--California--Malibu
Fire engines--California--Malibu
Mountains--California, Southern
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Malibu (Calif.)
Night photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Siddon, Dave

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