Photo: Futterer, Holyland Exhibition 1960. Grass fire atop Lake View at the south end of the Red Car Property near Silver Ridge Ave. (Click on photos to enlarge.)
Photo: Diane Edwardson, October 4, 2014. Lake View Ave, grass fire sparked by blown transformer & power lines down - just a few hundred feet north of the 1960 photo.
LAFD adopted stronger brush clearance regulations for Hillside areas like ours after the 1993 Oakland Hills Fire, where 3,403 homes were destroyed; 780 in the first hour of the fire. Read more about the Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone and brush clearance regulations on the LAFD website.
