FIRES IN CALIFORNIA.
ESTATES LAI WASTE. FIVE MILES OP FOREST. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Reed. 9.5 p.m.) , NEW YORK. Oct. 13. ■! Forest fires have laid waste a score ot magnificent residences over an area of five square miles, and have attacked the suburbs and threaten the city of Pasa- : dena, California. Damage amounting to millions of dollars has already been done. Three persons were seriously burned. :-v ; Twenty thousand /men; are fighting the fire. Buildings are being dynamited in m t attempt to stop the progress of the flames.' Los Angeles is in the; direct path of the fire, which is; eating; its way through vast ? groves of magnificent / trees, covering a countryside which is considered : to be the most beautiful • section of California.' The district 7 contains many .large /estates laid out by millionaires.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18530, 15 October 1923, Page 7
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