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Major Incidents of the LAFD

Note: This section is under construction and many of the files are incomplete at this time.
Information is being added as is becomes available.

The Hurricane Katrina Disaster, August 29, 2005
The World Trade Center Attack, September 11, 2001
The Northridge Earthquake, January 17, 1994
Old Topanga Fire, November 2 - 11, 1993
The Los Angeles Riots, April 9 - May 4, 1992
US Air Boeing737 Crash at LAX, February 1, 1991
Pan Pacific Auditorium Fire, May 24, 1989
First Interstate Bank Fire May 4, 1988
Los Angeles Central Library Fire, April 29, 1986
The Dorothy Mae Apartment Fire, September 9, 1982
Kirkwood Bowl/Laurel Canyon Fire, September 16, 1979
Mandeville Canyon Fire, October, 1978
DC-10 Crash at LAX March 1, 1978
Topanga Canyon Fire, November 14, 1977
S.S. Sansinena Explosion, December 17, 1976
Explosion at LAX, August 6, 1974 
GATX Tank Farm Explosion, August 8, 1972
The Sylmar Earthquake, February 9, 1971
Ponet Square Hotel Fire, September 13, 1970
Baldwin Hills Reservoir Collapse, December 14, 1963
Bel-Air-Brentwood Fire, November 1961
Beachwood Canyon Fire, May 12, 1961
Laurel Canyon Fire, July 10, 1959
Santa Fe Train Wreck, January 22, 1956
The La Tuna Canyon Brush Fire, November 6, 1955
S.S. Markay Explosion, July 22, 1947
O'Connor Electro-Plating Co. Explosion, February 20, 1947
Explosion in the Harbor, October 21, 1944
The Gray Building Fire, November 6, 1939
The 1938 Brush Fire, November 23 to 30, 1938
The Griffith Park Brush Fire, October 3, 1933
The Shrine Auditorium Fire, January 11, 1920
The Brennan Hotel Fire, January 24, 1913 
Fraser's Million-Dollar-Pier Fire, September 4, 1912
 The Los Angeles Times Building Explosion, October 1, 1910
The Belmont Hotel Fire, December 16, 1887

 

 

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