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.
Slipstream
A long-ago tragedy that reminds me of our most recent Altadena and Pacific Palisades fires. Stunning photos George.
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.
Well Street
I, too, was immediately taken back to the footage of our recent fires when seeing these pictures.