Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. About 3 men, and possibly 1 woman, bent around fallen firefighter Bert Hancock, legs visible, on wet and dirty sidewalk, with 2 men nearby, another man in foreground holding fire hose, at base of ladder leaning on 2-story building marked 1243, Western Candy Box Co., with smoke coming from upstairs windows and roof This photograph appears with the article , "Fireman at End of Fatal Factory Blaze Plunge." Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 1938. Print. Photograph of print Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 12130 - Fire 63rd & Hooper, Bert F. Hancock killed, copy neg, Dec 22 1938, Frank [Johns? Johnh?] [Stamped:] Dec 23 1938 Text from newspaper caption: Fellow Fire-Fighters Rush to Aid of Dying Fireman As He Falls From Ladder Top at Industrial Fire. Death came to Bert F. Hancock, 36-year-old fireman, in a strange way yesterday. He went with County Engine Company No. 9 on his day off to help fight a fire in the Western Candy Box factory on East Sixty-Third street. While helping lead a hose to top of forty-foot ladder sudden pressure of water toppled him to the ground. He died on the way to the hospital. The above photo was taken right after Hancock’s fatal plunge. Times photo by Staff Photographer Jack Herod Handwritten at edge of negative: Bert F. Hancock killed At lower left corner of negative: H-39
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
0321 uclamss_1429_0321 ark:/21198/zz002d9k6d
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Disaster Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles Fires--California--Los Angeles Hancock, Bert F., 1899-1938 Western Candy Box Company (Los Angeles, Calif.)
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