Access to this collection is generously supported by Haynes Foundation funds. Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. Fires swept through Topanga Canyon and along the Santa Monica mountains in late November of 1938 when ashes from an old cooking range scattered into nearby grass in Calabasas. Flames jumped the Pacific Coast Highway and burned several homes along the beach north of Santa Monica. Chief Scott, right, points ahead, as he talks to Assistant Chief Moore, left. Handwritten on negative: Fire Chief Scott, Asst Fire Chief Moore 11/24/38 Text from negative sleeve: 15198 1938 Topanga Malibu Fire 2
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_11909 ark:/21198/zz002h8rtx
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Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles Fires--California--Los Angeles Canyons--California--Topanga Scott, R. J. (Ralph James), 1884-1958 Moore, Forrest W., 1893-1973
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