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Title : Bagh-e Fin
Other title : Bagh-i Fin; Fin Garden
Date : 1571-1629 (construction) 1797-1834 (reconstruction)
Current location : Kashan, Esfahan, Iran
Description of work : The Bagh-e Fin was developed during the reign of the Safavid ruler Shah Abbas I (1571-1629) on the route to his new capital at Isfahan. Contained within massive enclosure walls and laid out on a series of low terraces, the garden follows a quadripartite chahar bagh scheme divided by the crossing of two watercourses which also line the perimeter of the garden. The crossing is marked by a two-story pavilion, while garden spaces and pathways fill the space. An additional watercourse, running adjacent to the central one, emanates from a small, but elaborately painted, pool house. The paintings date to the reign of the Qajar ruler Fath Ali Shah (1797-1834), who also replaced most of the earlier buildings. The water is delivered by a qanat (underground irrigation canal) and is forced through numerous fountains by gravity. Various hammams (bathhouses), residences, and a museum line the sides. It was declared a national monument in 1935 and has since undergone extensive repairs. (Sources: Hobhouse, Penelope. Gardens of Persia. Kales Press, 2004; Faghih, Nasrine and Amin Sadeghy. "Persian Gardens and Landscapes" Architectural Design 82.3, 2012, pp. 38-51.)
Description of view : View of benches covered with pillows and carpets in the tea room, located among the complex to the west of the Qajar pool house. The area was once restricted to only women.
Work type : Architecture and Landscape
Style of work : Safavid; Qajar
Culture : Iranian (Islamic)
Materials/Techniques : Stone
Brick
Trees
Source : Movahedi-Lankarani, Stephanie Jakle (copyright Stephanie Jakle Movahedi-Lankarani)
Date photographed : June 2009
Resource type : Image
File format : JPEG
Image size : 3000H X 4000W pixels
Permitted uses : This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. Other uses are not permitted. alias.libraries.psu.edu/vius/copyright/publicrightsarch.htm
Collection : Worldwide Building and Landscape Pictures
Filename : WB2016-0044 Fin.jpg
Record ID : WB2016-0044
Sub collection : gardens
historic sites
garden structures
Copyright holder : Copyright Stephanie Jakle Movahedi-Lankarani
In delicate light-pink traditional Vietnamese dress, a graceful maiden holds a bunch of white calla lilies, posing on a curved structure on a green lake at a street intersection. The soft afternoon sunlight and pale blue smoke evoke an ancient ambiance.
Allard Residence, Saint Louis, Missouri.
designer: Adrian Luchini
architect of record: Andrew Raimist
Photograph copyright © Andrew Raimist.
Did a little test run of our shelter idea with Lindsay. We haven't got the material for the skin yet, it will be a sort of thick nylon weave attached the ribs of the structure with zip-ties. Everything worked as we hoped and it took us about 30 minutes to assemble it from scratch.
The structure is:
1" diameter PVC pipes. Joint's held together by thicker pipe sleeves and secured with bike tire inner tubes. The pipes in the arches are put over 2' pieces of rebar hammered into the ground with 1' sticking out. The pressure from the pipes bending holds it in place.
I'm trying to decide where I should shoot some portraits in an abandoned place... if you can see these, feel free to weigh in. :)
I know, the names are *very* creative... :P
Indigo Winter Garden - Jiang TaiBeijing - Chine
HDA : Specialist Design consultants
Client : Swire Properties Ltd. in Joint Venture with Sino-Ocean Land
Architect: Benoy
Date : 2007 - 2012
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Googie style facade and doors on an otherwise boxy building. Note the use of plate glass on the sides.
Ubud has a big event on August 2011 ago. A huge bade is being built on Suweta street, next to the Ubud palace. A Bade is a towering structure used to carry human remains that are going to be cremated. The royal family of Ubud palace will hold a cremation ceremony on August 18th. This ceremony is called plebon (respectful word for ngaben which is the word that is more common) and it is dedicated to one of the late royal family member.
Plebon or Ngaben -- along with all its details, this rite is the last important ceremony in the cycle of a Balinese Hindu life. According to Hindu beliefs, the body of a human being consists of five natural elements. These are called Panca Maha Butha. They are: tanah (earth), api (fire), air (water), udara (air) and akasa (ether). These five elements are given by the Creator and become home for the human soul. So, when somebody dies, these five elements should be given back to where they belong in order to release the soul for its journey to eternal life.
For about 1 km along the main street, from the crossroads at Ubud Palace to Pliatan Palace, the cemetery at the east, the procession will take place. Thousand of people will gather on the street.
The cremation procession and associated ceremonies are important rituals in the Hindu rites of passage. The bodies of the deceased will be carried through the streets of Ubud by thousands of local people on top of a nine-tiered tower called “bade”. The procession will be accompanied by an elaborately decorated and venerated bull effigy (Lembu), with a five meter-long tail. The bull effigy is reserved for the elders of the Royal family and is thus seldom seen in cremation ceremonies.
Ngaben is the principle funeral rite in Bali’s Hindu society which aims to return the remains of the deceased to the elements from which all living things are created and to release the soul from all ties to this life.
Wildfire Structure Protection near Shan Creek Road on the Taylor Fire by the Eugene Springfield Fire Department. By removing excess brush and debris, crews may have a chance to decrease potential wildfire damage. Credit: Darren Stebbins 7-27-18
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Used shallow DOF to focus on the yellow flowers.
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Chatham-Kent Fire Service, Station 16 Raleigh South was tapped out for a possible structure fire around 18:30 hours on April 24, 2014.
Just after leaving the hall, unit 16-11 reported smoke visible and requested a 2nd alarm along with an extra tanker/tender. This brought in Station 15 Raleigh North, and 17-12 from Station 17 Merlin.
Crews worked the exterior in a defensive posture due to the amount of fire and debris on the interior of a steel workshop.
Due to the amount of damage, an excavator has been brought in to demolish the building.
Wildfire Structure Protection near Shan Creek Road on the Taylor Fire by the Eugene Springfield Fire Department. By removing excess brush and debris, crews may have a chance to decrease potential wildfire damage. Credit: Darren Stebbins 7-27-18
Dancing Rabbit is located in a county that has no building codes, which gives members a great deal of leeway in deciding what to build. They do have an environmental covenant that disallows lumber, except for reclaimed lumber and locally harvested wood. Many structures utilize clay taken right out of the ground, often combined with straw bale construction.
At 12:07 hours on September 14, 2013, Chatham-Kent Fire Department, Stations 1 and 2 were toned out for a structure fire at 67 Patteson Ave. in Chatham.
Unit 1-11 pulled out of the hall and reported a visible header.
Three civilians that live near by noticed the fire and called 9-1-1. Eric, Dawn, and Kevin tried to gain entry through the front door of the residence, but were unsuccessful. They then went to the side door where they found a 7 year-old girl trying to get out. Eric, Dawn and Kevin then forced open the side door, gaining entry, and helping a mother and toddler to safety.
Once on scene 1-11 captain advised that the front portion of a two story dwelling to be well involved with fire, and requested a 2nd alarm.
Firefighters immediately went to work protecting exposures on the Bravo and Delta sides of the home which had only suffered heat damage.
Next, fire crews made entry into the home through the side door for an interior attack.
Firefighters were able to rescue a cat from the home, but sadly, the cat succumbed to smoke inhalation.
Fire officials are estimating a total of $200,000 of damage with $400,000 worth of property being saved.
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Calcareous tufa with plant fragments from the Holocene of Ohio, USA (9.3 centimeters across at its widest).
Calcareous tufa is a scarce, calcitic, crystalline-textured, chemical sedimentary rock. It principally forms around cold springs having water relatively rich in dissolved calcium carbonate. Calcareous tufa is often characterized as a lightweight, porous, friable precursor to travertine (another calcitic, chemical sedimentary rock).
Here's a very dark brown-colored calcareous tufa sample with plant fragments - many of the cylindrical structures visible here are calcite tubes formed around plant stems, axes, or roots. The cold water spring that formed this rock emerges from a Wisconsinan-aged glacial till deposit (upper Upper Pleistocene) onto a forest floor above a large creek cut. This piece fell from the spring site onto a muddy point bar along the creek. The source of the calcium carbonate is Devonian limestone clasts in the glacial till.
Age: Holocene
Locality: cold spring emerging from Wisconsinan glacial till, forest floor above large creek cut along eastern side of Lobdell Creek, southwestern end of Lobdell Reserve, just east of Mounts Road (Township Road 114), St. Albans Township, near Alexandria, western Licking County, central Ohio, USA
NORTHRIDGE - 40 firefighters found the garage (attached) of a single-family home fully involved and extinguished the fire in 13 minutes. Initial reports of a person trapped in the fire room proved to be false after a thorough search. The fire was stopped quickly before extending into the home. No reported injuries.
© Photo by Jacob Salzman
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The Gateway of India is a monument built during the British Raj in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India. It is located on the waterfront in the Apollo Bunder area in South Mumbai and overlooks the Arabian Sea. The structure is a basalt arch, 26 metres high. It lies at the end of Chhatrapati Shivaji Marg at the water's edge in Mumbai Harbour. It was a crude jetty used by the fishing community which was later renovated and used as a landing place for British governors and other prominent people. In earlier times, it would have been the first structure that visitors arriving by boat in Mumbai would have seen. The Gateway has also been referred to as the Taj Mahal of Mumbai, and is the city's top tourist attraction.
The structure was erected to commemorate the landing of their Majesties King George V and Queen Mary at Apollo Bunder, when they visited India in 1911. Built in Indo-Saracenic style, the foundation stone for the Gateway of India was laid on 31 March 1911. The final design of George Wittet was sanctioned in 1914 and the construction of the monument was completed in 1924. The Gateway was later the ceremonial entrance to India for Viceroys and the new Governors of Bombay. It served to allow entry and access to India.
The monument has faced three terror attacks from the beginning of the 21st century; twice in 2003 and it was also the disembarkation point in 2008 when four gunmen attacked the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower.
HISTORY
The Gateway of India was built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Mumbai, prior to the Delhi Durbar, in December 1911. However, they only got to see a cardboard model of the structure since the construction did not begin till 1915. The foundation stone was laid on 31 March 1911, by the governor of Bombay Sir George Sydenham Clarke, with the final design of George Wittet sanctioned on 31 March 1913. The gateway was built from yellow basalt and concrete. Between 1915 and 1919, work proceeded at Apollo Bundar (Port) to reclaim the land on which the gateway and the new sea wall would be built. The foundations were completed in 1920, and construction was finished in 1924. The gateway was opened on 4 December 1924, by the viceroy, the Earl of Reading.
The last British troops to leave India following the country's independence, the First Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry, passed through the gateway on their way out in a ceremony on 28 February 1948, signalling the end of British rule.
DESIGN & CONSTRUCTURE
The architect George Wittet combined the elements of the Roman triumphal arch and the 16th-century architecture of Gujarat. Its design is a combination of Hindu and Muslim architectural styles; the arch is of Muslim style while the decorations are of Hindu style. The gateway is built from yellow basalt and reinforced concrete. The stone was locally obtained, and the perforated screens were brought from Gwalior. The gateway faces out to Mumbai Harbour from the tip of Apollo Bunder.
The central dome is 48 feet (15 metres) in diameter and 25 metres above the ground at its highest point. The whole harbour front was realigned in order to come in line with a planned esplanade which would sweep down to the centre of the town. On each side of the arch, there are large halls that can hold 600 people. The cost of the construction was US$33,000, borne mainly by the Government of India. For lack of funds, the approach road was never built, and so the gateway stands at an angle to the road leading up to it.
SIGNIFICANCE
It is the place where the viceroys and governors used to land upon their arrival in India. Though built as a welcome to King George V for his visit of 1911, then an event of grand significance for British India and the British empire, today serves as a "monumental memento" of colonialisation and subjugation by the British over the people of India. Built right next to the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel, for British arriving for the first time to India, the gateway was a symbol of the "power and majesty" of the British empire.
Opposite the gateway stands the statue of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the king who used guerilla warfare to establish the Maratha empire in the Sahyadri mountain range in the 17th century, as a symbol of Maratha "pride and courage". The statue was unveiled on 26 January 1961 on the occasion of India's Republic Day. The other statue in the area is that of Swami Vivekananda.
There are five jetties at the gateway. The first jetty is exclusive to the Atomic Research Centre, the second and third are used for commercial ferry operations, the fourth is closed and the fifth is exclusive to the Royal Bombay Yacht Club.
After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, there has been a proposal to close all these jetties and replace them with two newer ones to be built near the Bombay Presidency Radio Club nearby. The second and third jetties are the starting point for tours of Elephanta Caves, which is a 50-minute boat ride away by ferry. Other routes from the Gateway include ferry rides to Alibaug and Mandwa; these ferries are said to carry passengers above their certified capacity due to their popularity.
The Gateway of India is a major tourist destination and a popular gathering spot for locals, street vendors and photographers. In 2012, Maharashtra Tourism Development Corporation moved the "Elephanta Festival of music and dance" from its original location at Elephanta Caves (where it had been celebrated for 23 years) to the Gateway due to the increased capacity offered by the venue. The Gateway can host 2,000 to 2,500 people, whereas Elephanta Caves could host only 700 to 800 people.
TERROR ATTACKS
A bomb planted in a taxi exploded near the gateway in the 2003. The gateway was also the site of a major bomb-blast in August 2003 and was the disembarkation point of the terrorists participating in the November 2008 terror attacks when four gunmen attacked the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower. Public movement in certain areas was restricted after the 2008 attacks.
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Shukhov Hyperboloid Structure.
Hyperboloid structures are architectural structures designed using a hyperboloid in one sheet. Often these are tall structures such as towers where the hyperboloid geometry's structural strength is used to support an object high off the ground, but hyperboloid geometry is also often used for decorative effect as well as structural economy. The first hyperboloid structures were built by Russian engineer Vladimir Shukhov.
Hyperbolic structures have a negative Gaussian curvature, meaning they curve inward rather than curving outward or being straight. As doubly ruled surfaces, they can be made with a lattice of straight beams, hence are easier to build than curved surfaces that do not have a ruling and must instead be built with curved beams.
Hyperboloid structures are superior in stability towards outside forces compared with "straight" buildings, but have shapes often creating large amounts of unusable volume (low space efficiency) and therefore are more commonly used in purpose-driven structures, such as water towers (to support a large mass), cooling towers, and aesthetic features.
A good example of a Hyperboloid Structure is the control tower at Newcastle Airport.
The Structure was modelled in Autodesk Inventor and rendered in Autodesk 3DS.
Bowness-on-Windermere situated in a spectacular lakeside setting on the eastern shore of Lake Windermere, is Cumbria’s most popular destination. The town is busy for much of the year, with people who come to enjoy the facilities of the lake for sailing, fishing and watersports, also those who come just to relax and enjoy the atmosphere of the area and the town’s delightful setting.
Lake Windermere has been a water highway for centuries and is the headquarters of the Royal Windermere Yacht Club. It is the greatest centre in the district for cruising, water-skiing, underwater swimming and yachting. The lake is constantly busy with ferries, yachts and speedboats and interestingly Windermere is the only lake in the Lake District, which has no speed restriction for water traffic. Take a stroll around the shoreline which is a fascinating place, where boat builders and repairers can be seen at work.
Victorian and Edwardian buildings are evident throughout Bowness, but for those who are interested in its earlier history a walk to Lowside, behind the church will prove rewarding. The houses and little narrow streets in this area of the town give a picture of Bowness before the advent of the railway.
St. Martin’s Church the parish church of Windermere, stands on a site which has been a religious foundation for over 1,000 years. The original structure was burnt down and rebuilt in 1484, and restored in 1870. The east window contains 15th century stained glass, depicting red and white stripes and three stars, the arms of John Washington who was an ancestor of George Washington, the first president of America.
Bowness-on-Windermere was well known to the poet William Wordsworth: The White Lion, now the Royal Hotel was patronised by him and mentioned in 'The Prelude'. Wordsworth was a regular user of the ferry, which crosses Lake Windermere. He wrote, 'I bounded down the hill shouting amain/ A lusty summons to the further shore/ For the old Ferryman'. A car ferry still crosses the lake between Ferry Nab and Ferry House providing an attractive and convenient approach to the western side of the lake and the villages of Hawkshead and Sawrey, where you can visit the home of Beatrix Potter at Hill Top.
All the family will want to visit 'The World of Beatrix Potter', which is situated in the centre of Bowness-on-Windermere. This is a magical recreation of Beatrix Potters books, where you can meet Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle-duck and all the characters in the famous stories.
The Windermere Steamboat Centre in Rayrigg Road, houses a unique collection of historic steamboats and motorboats. Special events throughout the season include the British Classic Motorboat, model boat and steamboat rally.
This structure was built to mirror the mosque to the left of the tomb building, as Mughal architecture requires symmetry in all things. It saw use as a guest house.
4/11/2020
Childress, Texas
A severe warned supercell moves east along Highway 287. This storm formed west of Childress in a line of storms, but an embedded supercell was able to form where it tried to produce a tornado several times. In this photo you can see a large wall cloud just to the left of the road.
Neighbors noticed the two car detached garage at 105 Davis Rd to be going good so they made the call to the Seymour Volunteers. When the tones dropped an automatic mutual aid was requested from the Town of Oxford for a ladder truck as Seymour's was out of service. The fire crews arrived to a fully involved garage fire which was spreading to the exposed section of the 1.5 story wood dwelling which was in close proximity. Fire had extended into the first floor as well as the attic space but quick work from the responders kept the fire from engulfing the dwelling as well. Searchs of the home were negative but the owner was still unaccounted for. As marshals dug throught the rubble which was once the garage in hopes of determining the origin of the fire they made the discovery of human remains amongst the ashes and charred wood. The body which was badly burned was taken by the medical examiners office so an autopsy might reveal the identity of the deceased.
The Agra Fort is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is about 2.5 km northwest of its more famous sister monument, the Taj Mahal. The fort can be more accurately described as a walled city.
HISTORY
The present-day structure was built by the Mughals, though a fort had stood there since at least the 11th century. Agra Fort was originally a brick fort known as Badalgarh, held by Raja Badal Singh Hindu Sikarwar Rajput king (c. 1475). It was mentioned for the first time in 1080 AD when a Ghaznavide force captured it. Sikandar Lodi (1488–1517) was the first Sultan of Delhi who shifted to Agra and lived in the fort. He governed the country from here and Agra assumed the importance of the second capital. He died in the fort at 1517 and his son, Ibrahim Lodi, held it for nine years until he was defeated and killed at Panipat in 1526. Several palaces, wells and a mosque were built by him in the fort during his period.
After the First Battle of Panipat in 1526, Mughals captured the fort and seized a vast treasure, including the diamond later known as the Koh-i-Noor. The victorious Babur stayed in the fort in the palace of Ibrahim and built a baoli (step well) in it. The emperor Humayun was crowned here in 1530. Humayun was defeated at Bilgram in 1540 by Sher Shah. The fort remained with Suris till 1555, when Humanyun recaptured it. The Hindu king Hem Chandra Vikramaditya, also called 'Hemu', defeated Humanyun's army, led by Iskandar Khan Uzbek, and won Agra. Hemu got a huge booty from this fort and went on to capture Delhi from the Mughals. The Mughals under Akbar defeated King Hemu finally at the Second Battle of Panipat in 1556.
Realizing the importance of its central situation, Akbar made it his capital and arrived in Agra in 1558. His historian, Abdul Fazal, recorded that this was a brick fort known as 'Badalgarh'. It was in a ruined condition and Akbar had it rebuilt with red sandstone from Barauli area in Rajasthan. Architects laid the foundation and it was built with bricks in the inner core with sandstone on external surfaces. Some 4,000 builders worked on it daily for eight years, completing it in 1573.
It was only during the reign of Akbar's grandson, Shah Jahan, that the site took on its current state. Legend has it that Shah Jahan built the beautiful Taj Mahal for his wife, Mumtaz Mahal. Unlike his grandfather, Shah Jahan tended to have buildings made from white marble, often inlaid with gold or semi-precious gems. He destroyed some of the earlier buildings inside the fort to make his own.
At the end of his life, Shah Jahan was deposed and restrained by his son, Aurangzeb, in the fort. It is rumoured that Shah Jahan died in Muasamman Burj, a tower with a marble balcony with a view of the Taj Mahal.
The fort was invaded by the Maratha Empire during the mid 18th century. Thereafter, it changed hands between the Marathas and their foes many times. After their catastrophic defeat at Third Battle of Panipat by Ahmad Shah Abdali in 1761, Marathas remained out of the region for the next decade. Finally Mahadji Shinde took the fort in 1785. It was lost by the Marathas to the British during the Second Anglo-Maratha War, in 1803.
The fort was the site of a battle during the Indian rebellion of 1857, which caused the end of the British East India Company's rule in India, and led to a century of direct rule of India by Britain.
LAYOUT
The 380,000 m2 (94-acre) fort has a semicircular plan, its chord lies parallel to the river and its walls are seventy feet high. Double ramparts have massive circular bastions at intervals, with battlements, embrasures, machicolations and string courses. Four gates were provided on its four sides, one Khizri gate opening on to the river.
Two of the fort's gates are notable: the "Delhi Gate" and the "Lahore Gate." The Lahore Gate is also popularly also known as the "Amar Singh Gate," for Amar Singh Rathore.
The monumental Delhi Gate, which faces the city on the western side of the fort, is considered the grandest of the four gates and a masterpiece of Akbar's time. It was built circa 1568 both to enhance security and as the king's formal gate, and includes features related to both. It is embellished with inlay work in white marble. A wooden drawbridge was used to cross the moat and reach the gate from the mainland; inside, an inner gateway called Hathi Pol ("Elephant Gate") – guarded by two life-sized stone elephants with their riders – added another layer of security. The drawbridge, slight ascent, and 90-degree turn between the outer and inner gates make the entrance impregnable. During a siege, attackers would employ elephants to crush a fort's gates. Without a level, straight run-up to gather speed, however, something prevented by this layout, elephants are ineffective.
Because the Indian military (the Parachute Brigade in particular) is still using the northern portion of the Agra Fort, the Delhi Gate cannot be used by the public. Tourists enter via the Amar Singh Gate.
The site is very important in terms of architectural history. Abul Fazal recorded that five hundred buildings in the beautiful designs of Bengal and Gujarat were built in the fort. Some of them were demolished by Shahjahan to make way for his white marble palaces. Most of the others were destroyed by the British between 1803 and 1862 for raising barracks. Hardly thirty Mughal buildings have survived on the south-eastern side, facing the river. Of these, the Delhi Gate and Akbar Gate and one palace – "Bengali Mahal" – are representative Akbari buildings.
Akbar Darwazza (Akbar Gate) was renamed Amar Singh Gate by the British.
POPULAR CULTURE
- The Agra Fort won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004. India Post issued a stamp to commemorate this event.
- The Agra Fort plays a key role in the Sherlock Holmes mystery The Sign of the Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
- The Agra Fort was featured in the music video for Habibi Da, a hit song of Egyptian pop star Hisham Abbas.
- Shivaji came to Agra in 1666 as per the "Purandar Treaty" entered into with Mirza Raje Jaisingh to met Aurangzeb in the Diwan-i-Khas. In the audience he was deliberately placed behind men of lower rank. Insulted, he stormed out of the imperial audience and was confined to Jai Sing's quarters on 12 May 1666.
- In the second expansion pack for the videogame Age of Empires 3, the Asian Dynasties, Agra fort is one of five wonders for the Indian civilisation.
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GRANADA HILLS - Just after 5 a.m. on September 28, 2019, firefighters found a one-story home engulfed in flames on the 10400 block of Densmore Ave. Excessive storage conditions inside and out impeded efforts to quickly access the burning structure. It took 72 firefighters 50 minutes to extinguish the blaze. Firefighters combed through the excessive storage conditions inside the destroyed structure after the flames were extinguished and discovered one deceased occupant (73-year-old female). Mayor's Crisis Response Team and Red Cross responded for on scene support.
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About 16:45, a structure fire was reported at 3629 Palmdale Blvd cross of Landon Avenue, LAC131's, with smoke showing 5 miles out. LAC Engine 131 arrived on scene to find a single story, single family dwelling well involved, with a majority of the fire to the rear of the structure. In addition to Engine 131, Engines 93, 37, 92, Quint 24, Squad 131, Patrol 92 and Battalion 17 got knockdown about 12 mintues later. No injuries and cause is unknown.