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Description:: The 1933 Griffith Park Fire was a brush fire that occurred on 3 October 1933 in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, resulting in the deaths of at least 29 civilians who were trying to fight the fire. It was one of the deadliest firefighter disasters in United States history.
Date:: October 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: The 1933 Griffith Park Fire was a brush fire that occurred on 3 October 1933 in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, resulting in the deaths of at least 29 civilians who were trying to fight the fire. It was one of the deadliest firefighter disasters in United States history.
Date:: October 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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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:: The 1933 Griffith Park Fire was a brush fire that occurred on 3 October 1933 in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, resulting in the deaths of at least 29 civilians who were trying to fight the fire. It was one of the deadliest firefighter disasters in United States history.
Date:: October 1933
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Aerial view of the corner of Hill and Washington. Crowds of spectators flee from exhibition grounds where the auto show had been held. A sign reading "Show" is all that is left of the tent. The exhibition grounds are otherwise smoky and visibility is low. Reported on in "Fire Sweeps Auto Show; Loss Totals $1,250,000: Spectators Escape Without Panic; Spark Makes Fiery Furnace of Cars Housed in Four Tents," Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 1929: 1.
Date:: March 5, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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:: Rescue workers carry the covered remains of a victim of the fire at the Hope Development School for mentally disabled girls in Playa del Rey as firemen and others look on.
Date:: [May 31, 1924]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Related to the article, "Fire Perils Home Area. Blaze Sweeping Verdugo Hills. Two Hundred Men Battle Flames Fanned by Brisk Wind. Three Houses Doomed and Hundred Threatened Near La Crescenta." Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 1927: 1.
Date:: [circa December 3, 1927]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: Ruins of a stone building destroyed by the La Crescenta fires.
Date:: 1933
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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