FILM COLONY FIRE
GREAT PROPERTY DAMAGE
HUNDREDS OF HOMES DESTROYED
(Received November 26, 9 a.m.)
LOS ANGELES, November 25.
An army of fire-fighters has ringed a 200-mile mountain area in an effort to check the series of raging fires which have already destroyed hundreds of homes and threaten many palatial estates owned by cinema artists in this district.
The damage done to property up to now is more than 5,000,000 dollars, and the damage to a valuable watershed is incalculable.
One group of fire-fighters is making a stand in the Santa Monica Mountains to protect the famous Belair estates fringing the Beverly Hills.
The spread of the fire in this area has greatly diminished, causing the fire-fighters to believe that it is under control.
The homes of Madeleine Carroll, Frank Lloyd, and the producer Sam Woods have been destroyed. The flames were checked almost at the doors of the homes of Virginia Bruce, Miriam Hopkins, and Richard Dix.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 9
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