Imperial Valley press., 1933-11-23
FIRE BREAKS
OUT ANEW IN
COAST AREA
2aIatial Homes Endangered As
Blaze Gets Out Of Control AZ
ter Being Halted.
CCC WORKERS GIVING HELP
Large Force OF Men Concen-
trated Under Chief Scott To
Prevent Spreading.
cCC WORKERS GIVING Hell

PASADENA, Nov. %. U.P)-Leap-
ing with increasing fury through
precipitous canyons, a brush fire
was pressing eastward along the
southern slopes of the Sierra Ma
dire mountains today, menacing
scores Of palatial homes in Earl
| canyon, north of La Canada.
For time fire fighters believed
they had controlled the blaze
which in SO hours had laid waste
more than 5000 acres of heavily
wooded country and destroyed a
! score Of homes, but winds off the
desert to the east and from the
| ocean on the west combined to fan
| the flames into renewed activity.
PASADENA, Nov. %. (U.p) Aid
ed by lull in the wind, 5000 fire
men were believed today to have
brought under control the eight
mile brush fire in the foothills
northeast of here that for time
imperilled two residential districts
and the entire town of Tujunga.
Nine companies of Los Angeles
firemen under direction of Fire
Chief Ralph A. Scott succeeded in
/ laying a network of hose in and
| around Tujunga, almost insuring
! its homes and stores against de-
struction, and the blazeS in half
! dozen canyons about the town SEEM
ed to be burning themselves out.
spot fires" continued to burn
! in circumscribed areas all along the
eight-mile front, each believed in
| sulated by a burned-over strip Of
mo mans land
Chief Scott said he believed the
spread was checked in all directions
barring a new wind from the des-
ert beyond the divide.
PASADENA, Nov. 23 U,P)-Fan-
ragged along an 8-mile front in the
foothills northeast of here today.
imperiling two residential districts.
The fire reached into Bridge
Terrace in the La Crescenta dis
trict, destroyed several homes and
menaCed more than tWo-score 9TH
ers while an embattled band of
| firemen sought to stem the blaze
Fears for the safety of 100 coun-
/ ty welfare workers, reported trap
ped in HaineS canyon, were allayed
when the county fire dispatcher IS
office reported they were in no i'm
| odiotn Although oil
completely surrounded by flames,
the canyon was considered safe.
OF an original band of 100 workers
encamped in the canyon, 80 were
brought out by trucks. The trucks
were unable to make a return trip
when the fire blocked the ingoing
road.
The canyon lies approximately
midway between the La Crescenta
district and the town of Tujunga
where the fire crept to within a
few hundred feet of outlying resi-
denceS. The district was evacuated.
Firemen supported by bumpers from
Los Angeles held the blaze in check
for several hours and hoped to save
so houses and cabins.
A large number of minor casual
ties were reported from among the
army of volunteer firefighters.
most of them youths from neigh
boring C. C. C. camps. Officials
estimated that so volunteers had
been treated for burns or super
ficial injuries. One c. c. c. youth
was reported to have fallen from
a cliff but escaped serious injury.
| Another boy suffered a broken leg.
Fifty homes in Bridge Terrace
were evacuated when the fire
doubled back after menacing the
district when it first started Tues
day night. Irving Pichel and
Adolph Millard, film actors, and
Park Frame, a director, reside in
the district
Firemen estimated 5000 acres of
valuable watershed have already
been burned over, levying prop
erty damage of approximately S3,-
| 100000.
Checked BY Backfire
The fire broke out of control dur
ing the night. 1t drove to Foothill
boulevard boundary line TO the
flat, populated San Gabriel valley
but was checked by a backfire be-
fore it could leap the wide street
and spread destruction among
number of rich estates and agricul-
tural lands.
Hardly had this danger been
averted before the fire swept a new
path into big Tujunga canyon.
An undetermined number OF
homes and cabins in the sparsely
settled foothills we're destroyed
The Hillcrest sanitarium was
evacuated when fire wardens warn
ed officials of the danger of being
trapped Thirty patients deserted
the structure but 1t was believed To
have been saved by shifting wind.
Mt. Lukens, highest peak In the
district. was massed In flames dur
! ing the night Walter Elliott. the
lookout, notified superiors here hc
had deserted the post The flames
leaping 200 feet in the air. could be
distinguished plainly in Los An
geles
Firemen reported that i3,600 gall
Ions of wine were destroyed when
flames enveloped l. Hermitage, q
! famous old winery
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