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Title: Blaze creeps closer to city
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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: This is how the main section of the city of Sierra Madre looked early this morning, even before the sun came up. Flames lighted the store fronts almost as daylight. In the hills the terrifying blaze crept ever closer--about 100 yards an hour, and completely out of control. One thousand fire fighters had little chance to cut firebreaks before the strong winds fanned new patches into flame. Photo dated: December 28, 1953.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050634
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 6987.
CARL0000054782
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/18469
Subject: Fires
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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