US UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description
Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. A shirtless man kneels beside the bodies of two injured men that have been placed on piles of rags. Around them other escapees from the blaze sit or stand, some of them being examined by the help attending the scene. An estimated 48 people are dead from a fire in Griffith Park canyon that firefighters suspect was caused by the spark from a discarded cigarette when the winds shifted. Photograph appears with the headline, "Workers Trample Comrades in Dash to Escape Death-Dealing Griffith Park Brush Fire," Los Angeles Times, 04 Oct 1933: 6. Text from newspaper caption: Scenes of Tragedy After Flames Trapped Scores in Griffith Park Upper left-Side of hill where brush fire dealt death to relief workmen. Upper right-Injured receiving first aid at emergency station set up near path of holocaust. Below-Times Staff Artist Charles H. Owens's sketch shows location of blind canyon in which leaping blaze caught scores of victims. Text from negative sleeve: L.A. Parks, Griffith Park Fires 2
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_6099 ark:/21198/zz002cw7xn
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Lifesaving at fires--California--Los Angeles Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.) Fires--California--Los Angeles
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