Subject: Fire fighting--California--Los Angeles / Subject: Fires--California--Los Angeles - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Fire fighters hose down one of the many fires that raged after the Markay, an oil tanker owned by the Keystone Tankship Corp., exploded in L.A. Harbor. The sinking oil tanker can be seen in the background of this photo. The fire was fed by leaking gasoline and threatened at least five terminals in the harbor. At least 22 were injured and 9, possibly 12, people were killed. Damage was estimated at $10,000,000.
Date:: June 22, 1947
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fire fighters battle a hay barn fire at 1600 E. First St. in Santa Ana, California while children gather to watch. Much of the hay has been removed from the barn and piled in the street.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fire fighters battling a hay barn fire at 1600 E. First St. in Santa Ana, California. Picture is half obscured by a shadow
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fire fighters respond to a fire at the Goodwill Industries premises in the Baker Block building. Remarkably, 400 crippled and elderly men and women, as well as 20 children in the nursery, escaped unharmed. Firefighters were able to keep the blaze from spreading throught the entire building, which had been in use since 1868. A short circuit in the electrical department on the ground floor was suspected to be the cause of the fire.
Date:: January 14, 1938
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fire fighting crews in La Canada survey damage from the brush fire that threatened four foothill communities including La Canada, Montrose, Glendale, and Flintridge. The crew saved many homes from the blaze, but several old cars were destroyed, as seen here.
Date:: October 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Fire fighters spray water on a hay barn fire at 1600 E. First St. in Santa Ana, California while children gather to watch.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Two fire fighters stand on top of a pile of hay, battling a fire in the hay barn at 1600 E. First St. Santa Ana, California.
Date:: 1945
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Dark plumes of smoke emerge out from the windows on the 5th floor of the Newmark Bros. building as firefighters try to put out the fire from the ladder. Multiple fire trucks are parked in front of the burning building as pedestrians watch from across the street.
Date:: November 29, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Related to the article, "Dozen Hurt In Explosion: Stores Burn Downtown, Sixth and Broadway Fire Caused by Tank Blast; Traffic Jammed." Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 1935.
Date:: October 23, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Back-side view from a rooftop of the First Baptist Church of Hollywood on Selma and Las Palmas avenues as firefights attend to the fire, which destroyed the church on May 3, 1935. A man is seen sitting on a nearby roof observing the fire. Undaunted by the fire that happened on a Friday, members of the church raised a large tent beside the ruins to conduct regular service the following Sunday.
Date:: May 3, 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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