Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. View of the ruins of homes destroyed by the Sunset Canyon fires of early December, 1927. The fires destroyed approximately 100 bungalows and cabins in Sunset Canyon and caused additional damage elsewhere. Thousands fought the fire over several days. Related to the article, "Fire Perils Home Area. Blaze Sweeping Verdugo Hills. Two Hundred Men Battle Flames Fanned by Brisk Wind. Three Houses Doomed and Hundred Threatened Near La Crescenta." Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 1927: 1. This photograph appears in the article, "Trail of Fire Demon Now Only Blackened Waste. Millions Lost in Fire Areas. Brush Flames Subdued Over Four Districts. San Bernardino Sections Still Ablaze. Glendale Plans Check Dams to Prevent Peril." Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 1927: A1. Text from newspaper caption: Mostly Burnt Beyond Repair. Scene in Sunset Canyon showing ruins of bungalows after flames of brush conflagration had swept over district. [Los Angeles Times, 6 Dec. 1927: A1.] Text from negative sleeve: Fires, Los Angeles, Sunset Canyon, 1927.
Type
Image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2324 ark:/21198/zz002dd93b
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Fires--California--Los Angeles Ruins--California--Los Angeles
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