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Title
Bel-Air area fire
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
The Bel Air Fire was a brush fire that began on November 5, 1961 in the Bel Air community of Los Angeles. 484 homes were destroyed and 16,090 acres were burned. As a direct result of the Bel Air Fire, Los Angeles initiated a series of laws and fire safety policies. These included the banning of wood shingle roofs in new construction and one of the most stringent brush clearance policies in the United States. The Los Angeles City Fire Department produced a documentary, "Design For Disaster," about the wildfire, narrated by William Conrad.
Photograph caption dated November 7, 1961 reads "Flames lick at remaining portions of Stone Canyon Road house in Bel-Air area fire - Expensive structure was among homes burned in city's worst fire; note card tables in pool at left." and "Flames lick at remaining portions of Stone Canyon Road house in Bel-Air area fire - Expensive structure was one of 250 homes burned in city's worst fire." Image appeared in at least three editions of the paper.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00127207
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d032_f25_i22; H-12540.4 4x5
CARL0005437993
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/58749
Subject
Fires--California--Bel Air (Los Angeles)
Dwellings--California--Bel Air (Los Angeles)
Rubble--California--Los Angeles
Flame
Smoke--California--Los Angeles
Foothills--California--Los Angeles
Card tables--California--Los Angeles
Streets--California--Bel Air (Los Angeles)
Lost architecture--California--Bel Air (Los Angeles)
Swimming pools--California--Bel Air (Los Angeles)
Mountains--California, Southern
Santa Monica Mountains (Calif.)
Bel Air (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period
1961-1970

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