Original 1947 Associated Press wire photo measuring 8¼ x 7¾ inches overall and mounted on black archival paper. The original caption is separate from the photograph. This moving image shows a boy and his younger sister riding past the ruins of homes destroyed by devastating brush fires near Chatsworth in California's upper San Fernando Valley on July 4, 1947. Approximately 50 homes were lost in the fast-moving wildfire, while a lone home visible in the background escaped the flames. The Chatsworth Reservoir can be seen beyond the fire-scarred landscape. From the archive of a Pittsburgh area newspaper.
