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Major Incidents of the L.A.F.D.


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

U.S. Air Boeing 737 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


DC-6 Crash, Van Nuys, February 8, 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


The Watts Riots, August 1965

Baldwin Hills Reservoir Collapse, December 14, 1963

Bel-Air/Brentwood Brush Fire, November 1961

Beachwood Canyon Brush Fire, May 12, 1961


Laurel Canyon Brush Fire, July 10, 1959


The Solnit Shoe Company Fire, January 22, 1959

Sante Fe Train Wreck, January 22, 1956


The La Tuna Canyon Brush Fire, November 6, 1955

The Hollywood Park Race Track Fire, May 5 - 6, 1949

S.S. Markay Explosion, July 22, 1947


The Bradbury Building Fire, May 3, 1947

O'Connor Electro-Plating Co. Explosion, February 20, 1947

Explosion in L.A. Harbor, October 21, 1944


The Gray Building Fire, November 6, 1939


The 1938 Brush Fire, November 23-30, 1938


The Griffith Park Brush Fire, October 3, 1933


Shrine Auditorium Fire, January 11, 1920

The Brennan Hotel Fire, January 24, 1913

Fraser's Million-Dollar-Pier Fire, September 4, 1912


Los Angeles Times Building Explosion, October 1, 1910

The Belmont Hotel Fire, December 16, 1887




   



L.A.F.D. in Action
1900 to 1921

 

 


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