on the right side and maybe that happened for others.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:50 AM
Subject: [californiadisasters] Anniversary Reminder
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> 1993 Old Topanga (Malibu) Fire
> Tuesday November 2, 2010
> 11:00 am - 11:00 am
> (This event repeats every year.)
> Location: Los Angeles County
>
> Notes:
> On this morning in 1993 the arson-caused Old Topanga Fire began on the
north slope of the Santa Monica Mountains in Los Angeles County and driven
by strong Santa Ana Winds with gusts up to 70 miles per hour ran up and over
the mountain range and down to the sea at Pacific Coast Highway.
> Three people were killed and 369 homes were destroyed and at least 18,000
acres were scorched.
> One of the fatalities in this fire was Hollywood writer/director Duncan
Gibbons (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316496/) who was fatally burned when he
went back to his house to rescue his cat, which ironically survived the fire
despite being injured.
> Another irony is that Gibbons wrote the screenplay for a made-for-TV movie
entitled "Third Degree Burn" which aired in 1989.
> KTLA-TV's Jennifer York won an Emmy Award for her work reporting on this
fire from KTLA's primary news helicopter.
> A few years after this fire a couple of firefighters were falsely accused
of starting this blaze while off-duty but were later cleared when their
seemingly unlikely story was corroborated.
>
> Here are some great links about this disaster:
>
> http://www.malibucomplete.com/mc_history_malibucity_1993fire.php
>
>
http://www.lafire.com/famous_fires/931102_OldTopangaFire/110293_official_rep
ort_old_topanga_inci.htm
>
> http://www.dasfilmfest.com/?id=94
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