Burning Houses
Photograph caption:
Raging fire forced hundreds of residents to flee homes during night.
Article summary:
Shifting winds today alternately helped and threatened 500 exhausted firemen battling a 1,200-acre brush fire in the Hollywood Hills which destroyed 24 homes and damaged 30 others.
The blaze erupted at 7:43 p.m. Friday near Hollyridge avenue and Beachwood Canyon drive in the Griffith Park area. The fire was still burning today towards Burbank and Glendale on a northern-north-eastern-northwestern line in the vicinity of Mt. Lee and Mullholland, Vista Del Valle and Mt. Hollywood drives.
Photographer: George Brich, Valley Times Photo Collection/Los Angeles Public Library
Photograph dated May 13, 1961
Sanatana
Amazing and tragic photograph.
Photography
I hope nasty things like this don’t come back.
Many thanks, George Brich
Slipstream
A long-ago tragedy that reminds me of our most recent Altadena and Pacific Palisades fires. Stunning photos George.
Photography
Many thanks for your response.
George Brich
Evangel
Wow. Such beauty in these perfectly composed photos. I wouldn't want to be anywhere near such a brutal fire, but I can appreciate the time you took to get such perfect shots.
Photography
Thank you for your wonderful reply.
George Brich
Well Street
I, too, was immediately taken back to the footage of our recent fires when seeing these pictures.