Crime & Safety
VIDEO: Brentwood Is Burning
Bel Air and Brentwood burn in this 1962 documentary from the Los Angeles Fire Department.
When Bel Air and Brentwood burned in 1961 I was a kid back east and never even knew. But I just watched a faded documentary made a year after the blaze, and now I'll never forget.
You can't forget watching vistas you encounter every day tormented by flames and filled with heartbreak.
This 3:22 preview gives you the feel of Design for Disaster (produced by the LAFD in 1962) without the boring parts.
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Sure Bel Air burned, let's cut to Brentwood!
When the narrator starts naming streets "Kenter Canyon, Bundy, Tigertail" my blood runs cold.
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of Fire Station No. 19 on Sunset told me not to worry, this probably won't happen again.
What do you think? It can't happen here?
To see how it all turned out, watch the entire public domain video online here.
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