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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated August 14, 1963 partially reads, "Arson investigators today were checking reports that a youth admitted striking a match just before a 30-acre brush fire in the Encino hills which threatened expensive homes and the El Caballero Country Club. Two hundred fire fighters from 28 Los Angeles city and county fire units, aided by borate bombers, doused the potentially dangerous brush fire in an hour Tuesday afternoon."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Fires--California--Encino (Los Angeles) Airtankers (Forest fire control)--California--Los Angeles Airplanes--Fires and fire prevention--California--Los Angeles Airplanes--California--Los Angeles Trees--California--Los Angeles Fences--California--Los Angeles Mountains--California, Southern Encino (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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