The 1933 Griffith Park Fire was a brush fire that occurred on October 3, 1933, in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, resulting in the deaths of at least 29 civilians who were trying to fight the fire.

2018年11月12日 · The Griffith Park Fire had been the deadliest wildfire in recorded state history, killing 29 people in Los Angeles in 1933. But unlike the Camp Fire and the 2017 Tubbs Fire (previously the most destructive wildfire in terms of destroyed structures), which both burned large swaths of countryside and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses ...

The Griffith Park Fire of 1933 is considered the third deadliest firefighter tragedy in U.S. history (after the September 11 attacks and the Great Fire of 1910). On October 3, 1933, 29 men were reported killed as they tried to fight a wildfire that flared up in Griffith Park’s Mineral Wells Canyon.

2023年10月3日 · A small debris pile fire 90 years ago at the Mineral Wells Canyon in Griffith Park, in Los Angeles, CA, would end up being one of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history. The fire started...

The Griffith Park Fire started on October 3, 1933. The fuels were tall grass, chaparral, and oak trees. A little after 14:00, smoke was reported near the golf course club house by Park Superintendent Frank Shearer and City Landscape Engineer Fred Roewekamp. Shearer and Roewekamp noticed a man running away from where the fire started.

Sadly, due to their inexperience, approximately 150 men were injured, and at least 29 perished in the deadliest LA fire, pushed by winds through deep brush-filled canyons. Published records from the time, stated that more than 3,700 relief workers were involved in various activities throughout the park when the fire broke out.

Article 3b2a: Griffith Park Fire Article 3b2a A Case Study On October 3, 1933, a hot dry day in southern Cali-fornia, a fi re broke out in the Mineral Wells Canyon area near the old Los Angeles Zoo. As part of the Los Angeles County welfare relief program, a group of 3,780 men were clearing brush in the canyon that afternoon.

The Griffith Park Fire occurred at 2:26 p.m. October 3, 1933 in Block 36, Dam Canyon in the Mineral Wells Canyon area near the old Los Angeles Zoo. A group of 3,780 men were employed clearing brush as part of the Los Angeles County welfare relief program.

2007年5月9日 · In October 1933, a small brush fire broke out near the Los Angeles Zoo in Griffith Park. Its flames grew until it became one of the largest and most destructive fires in the city's history....

2015年5月11日 · In 1933, thousands of workers were widening roads and working on other projects in Griffith Park. When a small brush fire broke out, the workers, untrained in firefighting, were sent to...