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Title: Topanga Canyon fire
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1938
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The photo shows the backfire which was set to keep the Topanga Canyon flames out of Mandeville Canyon, where more than 50 costly homes were periled. The backfire was to burn a firebreak through the brush. But the flames began to leap across the ridge, dangerously near the homes. Photo date: November 25, 1938.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00057133
Herald Examiner Collection
HE Box 8140.
CARL0000061301
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22254
Subject: Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles County
Fires--California--Los Angeles County
Mountains--California, Southern
Topanga Canyon (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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