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Design for Disaster: 63-year-old LAFD film perfectly describes — and warns of — today's Los Angeles fires (video)

Design for Disaster: 63-year-old LAFD film perfectly describes — and warns of — today's Los Angeles fires (video)

Carla Sinclair
Jan 14, 2025
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Design for Disaster: 63-year-old LAFD film perfectly describes — and warns of — today's Los Angeles fires (video)
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Smoke from Palisades Fire, as seen from Sherman Oaks, CA. January 10, 2024 (Carla Sinclair)

As the catastrophic fires continue to burn in Los Angeles, a fascinating documentary of the 1961 Bel Air fire has resurfaced, and it's as if it were talking (and warning us) about today's Palisades and Eaton Canyon fires.

Only, unlike today's "experts," the narrato…

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