Saturday, October 3, 2015

[californiadisasters] 1933 Griffith Park Fire, Saturday, 03 October 2015



"1933 Griffith Park Fire" reminder
When
Saturday, 03 October 2015
08:00 PM to 08:00 PM
(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time - Dublin / Edinburgh / Lisbon / London
Where
Los Angeles County - Hollywood Hills
Notes
On this date in 1933 a fire began in the Mineral Wells area of Griffith Park. At the time nearly 4,000 men were clearing brush in the park as a contingent of Depression Era welfare project. Many of the men volunteered to fight the fire and were set to the task of combating the wildfire with no knowledge of firefighting. A wind shift caught hundreds of men in a canyon and burned them alive killing 29 and injuring 150. The fire ultimately charred 47 acres.
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