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Title: Fireman watches head of fire race up hillside
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator: Woods, Jon
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes
Photograph caption dated October 15, 1961 reads, "Fire fighters in distance battle blaze from fire road." The article partially reads, "Arson inspectors today were searching three acres of charred La Tuna Canyon hillside for the cause of a fire that swept through 200 acres of heavy brush in the Verdugo Hills Friday....They said the fire apparently started in a three-acre section of sloping foothills at the shoulder of La Tuna Canyon road, about a mile south of Tujunga and three miles north of Burbank."; See images #00114993 through #00114994 for all photos in this series.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00114994
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d016_f22_i12
CARL0005298188
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/48038
Subject: Fires--California--Verdugo Mountains
Fire fighters--California--Verdugo Mountains
Men--California--Verdugo Mountains
Emergency vehicles--California--Verdugo Mountains
Smoke--California--Verdugo Mountains
Mountains--California, Southern
Verdugo Mountains (Calif.)
Valley Times Collection photographs

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