Gale Force Winds Spread Blazes
Gale Force Winds Spread Blazes
Wicked winds --- seventy to hundred miles an hour sweep unseasonable brush fires into the Glendale and Burbank suburbs of Los Angeles. Forty fire companies with the most modern equipment are rushed to the scene. Efforts are almost futile to halt the relentlessly advancing flames. Twenty homes are completely destroyed. Others are badly damaged. 11,600 acres burned. Fortunately, there was no loss of life. Los Angeles, California Taken with a long lens camera you can see the hills in southern California smoking and on fire. LS - Fire in the mountains swallowing up the forest. MS - In one of the suburbs the houses that are at risk of the fire encroaching down from the mountains. MS - Firefighters with a piece of new fire fighting equipment, that blows wind intermixed with water into the fire. MCUS - Fireman looking at the shrubbery that's on fire. MS - A garage that's on fire and you can see by the flames and smoke how windy and life threatening this forest fire is. MCUS - A crowd of people has gathered as they watch the fire engulf vegetation across the street. MS - Homeowners, family and friends on top of their roofs wetting the roofs down so no sparks or burning debris can start their house on fire. MS taken at dusk - Fire raging and just gobbling up any and all of the vegetation that gets in its way. MS - Aftermath of a house that all but burned down. MS camera panning - Anything that was of value in this house is gone. Camera pans - Footage of the houses that were burned out where just a shell remains.