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Title: Fight 300-acre brush fire
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
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: 1955
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
Photograph caption dated August 3, 1955 reads "Firemen pull hose to north crest of Mint Canyon as 300-acre grass and brush fire sweeps into Fitch Canyon. A fireman and two juvenile camp crew members nearly lost their lives when fire destroyed their hose line and encircled them."; See images #00143218 through #00143219 for all photos in this series.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00143219
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d052_f7_i18
CARL0005787226
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/71524
Subject: Men--California--Santa Clarita
Fire fighters--California--Santa Clarita
Fires--California--Santa Clarita
Smoke--California--Santa Clarita
Brush--California--Santa Clarita
Hose--California--Santa Clarita
Mint Canyon (Santa Clarita, Calif.)
Santa Clarita (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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