Title supplied by cataloger. Photographer's caption reads, "I took the helicopter door off. I loosened the seatbelt as far as it would go and put a tab of gaffer's tape across the buckle. It's a routine. When you hang out the door to keep the landing skids out of the photos you stay as safe as you can. A client was picking up the tab on a commercial shoot, but I persuaded the pilot to make a detour over Hollywood. The slanting winter sun lit up the ridgetop mansions. Over the crest of the Hollywood Hills we spotted a little initial plume of smoke in Wildwood Canyon. It turned out to be the start of a fire that burned for days. Fire coordinators pulled 350 men off the raging 24,000-acre Topanga Fire and dispatched them to tackle the new threat. Santa Ana winds relentlessly pushed the fire into steep terrain in the San Gabriel Mountains above Burbank."
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;24 x 36 cm. on sheet 26 x 38 cm. Photographic prints
Hollywood Sign (Los Angeles, Calif.) Mansions--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Dwellings--California--Hollywood (Los Angeles) Fires--California, Southern Mountains--California, Southern San Gabriel Mountains (Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Neighborhoods Collection photographs
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