Griffith Park brush fire (overturned truck started fire), 1957

Caption slip reads: "Photographer: Mack. Date: 1957-06-18. Reporter: Sid Bernstein. Assignment: Griffith Park brush fire. General view of fire eating into heavy brush and trees at Forest Lawn drive near Riverside drive freeway construction. 27-28: Boy volunteers man fire house in moping up along Forest Lawn drive, rear of hose to front, John Riley, 13, Floyd Meyers, 15, Bob Mathie, 14, and Tom Holbrook, 16. 29: Left to Right: Joann Sheehan, 16, and Maryann Franklin, 16, watch flames jump Forest Lawn drive, into (parallel) Riverside drive construction zone. 30: Fire jumps Fores Park drive and burns bush near Riverside drive as traffic proceeds in background. 17: Cause of it all -- city rubbish truck No. 119 smolders and burns as it is righted on Mt. Hollywood drive where it overturned and started fire".

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