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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated October 24, 1956 reads, "Flames pass dangerously close to one of expensive hillside homes in Beverly Glen Canyon as blackened brush smolders in foreground at edge of road connecting Valley with West Los Angeles. More than 20 homes were threatened by wind-whipped flames which swept through this section of Sherman Oaks-Highlands today. Residents stood on roof-tops fighting fire with garden hoses as city fire crews sought to quell brush-inferno."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Fires--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles) Dwellings--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles) Streets--California--Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles) Disaster victims--California--Los Angeles Smoke--California--Los Angeles Electric lines--California--Los Angeles--Poles and towers Brush--California--Los Angeles Mountains--California, Southern Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.) Sherman Oaks (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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