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Fire fighters respond to a fire at the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, Los Angeles, January 14, 1938

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Title: Fire fighters respond to a fire at the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building, Los Angeles, January 14, 1938
Date Created and/or Issued: January 14, 1938
1938-01-14
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Fire fighters respond to a fire at the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building. Remarkably, 400 crippled and elderly men and women, as well as 20 children in the nursery, escaped unharmed. Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading throught the entire building, which had been in use since 1868. A short circuit in the electrical department on the ground floor was suspected to be the cause of the fire.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: Fire at Goodwill Industries in Baker Block
Handwritten annotation from nitrate negative: Goodwill Industries fire Baker Block
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz0025gr9q
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Fire fighting--California--Los Angeles
Fire engines--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Business
Goodwill Industries of America
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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