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La Vina Sanitarium ruins

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Order Number	00045493
Title	La Vina Sanitarium ruins
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 5959.
Date	1935
Physical Description	1 photograph :b&w
Description	Raging out of control, Southern California's most active brush and forest fire in years was destroying residences and estates on October 23, 1935, in Altadena and vicinity. The photo shows the blackened ruins of La Vina Sanitarium, from which 60 persons, many of them bed-ridden patients, were saved by heroic efforts as glowing embers showered over the buildings in dense clouds of smoke. Fourteen child patients added to the difficulty of rescuers' work. Shortly after the patients were removed to safety in Pasadena hospitals, the raging flames swept down from the denuded hills in the background and destroyed the frame buildings of the sanitarium. Rescue workers in autos and ambulances dashed through walls of flames along Lincoln Avenue to carry the patients to safety. The fire started along the Mount Lowe incline and was fanned by a 50-mile wind toward Altadena.
Subject	Fires--California--Altadena. Sanatoriums--California--Altadena. Altadena (Calif.). Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection