Malibu fire victim

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Birdseye view of Malibu mountain range view is looking northeast. Photograph shows two homes nestled along the mountain one has been burned to the ground, and the other, in close proximity, is virtually intact. This was a result of a fire days earlier that ravaged the foothill terrain and canyons, devastating thirty-two other multi-million dollar homes on the mountain and along the beachfront, and compromising hundreds more. Photograph dated December 29, 1956.The Malibu fire of December 27, 1956, apparently started on Backus Summit, inland from Zuma Beach. It destroyed 35 homes, killed one person, and injured thirty-three others - both firemen and civilians. Flames shot high enough to be seen from miles away, and the heat was so intense that rocks exploded, and embers and sparks showered down out of the hills across Pacific Coast Highway. Several of the homes destroyed were those of Hollywood personalities, including television's Ralph Edwards.