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conflagration that drove a score of film colony tenants into the
smoke-darkened street outside and caused the death of one fireman and
the serious injury of two others, destroyed the roof and upper stories
of the fashionable seven-story Voltaire apartments at 1428 Crescent Heights
boulevard early today. The blaze started shortly after 6 a. m. and in a short time there was a column of flame and smoke that rose 150 feet against the morning sky above Laurel canyon. Before 11 fire companies extinguished it, it had wrought an estimated damage of $150,000. More than a thousand persons stood in the street to watch the dramatic fire-fight. The fire was of a mysterious origin, and both county and city arson squads are conducting an investigation. Among the screen notables who fled the burning building were Kathlyn Williams, Alan Hale, Margaret Ettinger and Ross Shattuck, players' agents, Ann Bauchen, head cutter for Cecil B. De Mille, and Marcella Knapp of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer casting office. From an adjoining apartment building rushed Maureen O'Sullivan. Form one down the street came John Farrow, writer. The latter kept his car in the Voltaire garage and had rushed over in time to rescue it. The fireman who lost his life was D. W. Woods, 38, of County Engine company No. 8. He and Curtis Dillin, of City Engine company No. 27, were pitched from the burning building's steep Norman roof, unnoticed because of the dense __
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