Firefighters at base of ladder around fallen firefighter Bert Hancock, Los Angeles, 1938

Title: Firefighters at base of ladder around fallen firefighter Bert Hancock, Los Angeles, 1938
Photographer: Herod, Jack, b. ca. 1916
Date Created: August 12, 1938
Publisher: Los Angeles Times
Language: No linguistic content
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description: Photograph of print
About 3 men, and possibly 1 woman, bent around fallen firefighter Bert Hancock, legs visible, on wet and dirty sidewalk, with 2 men nearby, another man in foreground holding fire hose, at base of ladder leaning on 2-story building marked 1243, Western Candy Box Co., with smoke coming from upstairs windows and roof
This photograph appears with the article , "Fireman at End of Fatal Factory Blaze Plunge." Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 1938. Print.
Caption: Text from newspaper caption: Fellow Fire-Fighters Rush to Aid of Dying Fireman As He Falls From Ladder Top at Industrial Fire. Death came to Bert F. Hancock, 36-year-old fireman, in a strange way yesterday. He went with County Engine Company No. 9 on his day off to help fight a fire in the Western Candy Box factory on East Sixty-Third street. While helping lead a hose to top of forty-foot ladder sudden pressure of water toppled him to the ground. He died on the way to the hospital. The above photo was taken right after Hancock’s fatal plunge. Times photo by Staff Photographer Jack Herod
At lower left corner of negative: H-39
Text from nitrate negative sleeve: 12130 - Fire 63rd & Hooper, Bert F. Hancock killed, copy neg, Dec 22 1938, Frank [Johns? Johnh?] [Stamped:] Dec 23 1938
Handwritten at edge of negative: Bert F. Hancock killed

Genre: cellulose nitrate film
news photographs
Subjects: Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Disaster
Names: Western Candy Box Company (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Hancock, Bert F., 1899-1938
Longitude: 33.9821
Latitude: -118.252196
Resource type: still image

Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections
Local identifier: 0321
uclamss_1429_0321
ARK: ark:/21198/zz002d9k6d
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