In 1961, the Bel Air-Brentwood Fire burned more than 500 …
Dec 6, 2017 · Nixon wets the wood-shingled roof his rental house on North Bundy Drive during Brentwood-Bel Air fire of 1961. Richard Nixon, then renting a house on North Bundy Drive, took to the roof...
Bel Air Fire - Wikipedia
Others that fought flames before they evacuated were former Vice President Richard Nixon, actor Robert Taylor, film producer Keith Daniels and orchestra leader Billy Vaughn. [5] The fire's precise cause was never determined, but it was believed to be accidental. [6]
Photos: Scenes From the November 1961 Bel Air Fire Disaster
Oct 28, 2019 · American politician and former Vice President (and future President) Richard Milhous Nixon uses a garden hose to water down the wood-shingled roof his rental house on North Bundy Drive during...
After Smoke Cleared : Survivors: Some lost everything in the 1961 fire …
Jul 3, 1990 · For almost 30 years, it was the one talked about as “the big one,” the worst fire in the history of Los Angeles, a devastating inferno that swept through Bel-Air and Brentwood on Nov. 6, 1961,...
In this blaze, fame couldn't stop the flames - Los Angeles Times
Nov 5, 2006 · Among the most notorious California wildfires, the Bel-Air/Brentwood fire began in a trash heap 45 years ago this month -- a blaze that left hundreds of the rich and famous homeless in what...
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 1961 Bel-Air Fire Burns 450 …
Jan 13, 2025 · Former Vice President Richard Nixon climbed the roof of his rented Brentwood abode to douse embers with a garden hose. He later told reporters, “I have seen trouble all over the world, but nothing like this.”
Zsa Zsa Among the Ruins: Remembering the Bel Air Fire of 1961
Jun 11, 2014 · LIFE magazine covered the “Bel Air Fire” and reported on residents of the neighborhood — Maureen 0’Hara, Fred MacMurray, Richard Nixon, Zsa Zsa Gabor (seen here with legendary LIFE...
Flashback: Reliving Moments in L.A. County History : 1961: The Bel-Air …
Jan 18, 1991 · Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon and his chief researcher, Al Moscow, were working on a draft of Nixon’s “Six Crises” when the flames threatened his rented house on North Bundy Drive. Nixon...
'Tragedy trimmed in mink:' 50 years after the Bel Air fire disaster
Nov 7, 2011 · The fire destroyed nearly 500 posh homes in Bel Air and Brentwood. Thousands of people were forced to evacuate, including celebrities Burt Lancaster and Zsa Zsa Gabor.
Skirball Fire recalls 1961 Bel-Air inferno that burned ... - SFGATE
Dec 6, 2017 · Images from the 1961 fire show then-Senator Richard Nixon, "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry and actress Kim Novak, among others, dealing with the calamity and its aftermath.