| Show California Brush Fire Roars Into Day Dad LOS ANGELES Aug 8 UP UP- UP Big Tujunga canyons canyon's worst brush fire In 24 years roared into its fourth fourth- day Friday with fire fighters fight fight- ers so desperate that they tried to halt it by starting a rainstorm with dry Ice Stunt flier mer Paul Mantz dropped pounds of ot dry Ice pellets from froma a plane into a cloud floating over the fire It didn't work A forest service spokesman said that unless rain falls It will take two more days to check the fire ire raging forward on half of a 8 mile 16 line It has blackened more than acres of watershed In Angeles national forest killed two and injured injured injured in in- more than Caused by ct The fire started Tuesday mornIng mornIng morning morn- morn Ing from the discarded of ofa ofa a a. county prison camp Inmate The H w weary ary fire fighters many on the job more than 60 hours were handicapped by temperatures temperatures temperatures tem tem- well over laO and Md capricious capricious capricious ca ca- pricious winds One helicopter was kept busy rescuing victims of ot the Intense heat Mantz maintained an almost uninterrupted unInterrupted uninterrupted un un- interrupted service dropping supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies and water Helicopters Busy Another helicopter pilot Newt Flint deposited forest rangers on mountain peaks overlooking the canyon some 27 mI miles es from downtown downtown downtown down down- town Los Angeles so they could direct the fight tight Helicopters also flew four se serIously seriously seriously se- se Injured victims of a truck accident to a Red Cross camp in 10 minutes It would have taken 13 3 33 hours to reach the camp by car Later the helicopter whisked 80 fire fighters to the summit of Condor Condor peak to try to squelch the flames almost ringing the moun moun- tain The fire was some two miles from Hillcrest sanitarium whose tubercular patients were alerted alerted alerted alert alert- ed for evacuation They were not in danger however unless the wind shifts A county road camp in the canyon canyon canyon can can- yon also was in danger r and 60 prisoners were held ready for quick evacuation |
