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Description
10 x 7 in.
Photo is dated 11/07/1961.
A fireman in Sherman Oaks, Calif., directs water onto a blazing home. More than 250 homes have been destroyed and 2,000 persons have been evacuated. The destruction was termed the greatest since the San Francisco fire in 1906.
