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Ashes of Oakridge
Off-Ramp with John Rabe Hero Image
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Dan Carino
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Feb 21, 2009
Ashes of Oakridge
This week on Off-Ramp, we take a look at the fire that destroyed the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar. It was the biggest loss of homes in Los Angeles since the 1961 Fire in Bel Air. Residents say that the fire destroyed a tight-knit community that they called the Beverly Hills of Mobile Parks. KPCC reporter Frank Stoltze, Off-Ramp producer Queena Kim, and Jackson Musker find out what kind of place Oakridge was, why the fire happened, whether future mobile park fires can be prevented, and what future the park and its survivors face.
Oakridge lost 484 of its mobile homes on the night of November 14-15, 2008.
Oakridge lost 484 of its mobile homes on the night of November 14-15, 2008.
(
Queena Kim
)

This week on Off-Ramp, we take a look at the fire that destroyed the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar. It was the biggest loss of homes in Los Angeles since the 1961 Fire in Bel Air. Residents say that the fire destroyed a tight-knit community that they called the Beverly Hills of Mobile Parks. KPCC reporter Frank Stoltze, Off-Ramp producer Queena Kim, and Jackson Musker find out what kind of place Oakridge was, why the fire happened, whether future mobile park fires can be prevented, and what future the park and its survivors face.

This week on Off-Ramp, we take a look at the fire that destroyed the Oakridge Mobile Home Park in Sylmar.

It was the biggest loss of homes in Los Angeles since the 1961 Fire in Bel Air. Residents say that the fire destroyed a tight-knit community that they called the Beverly Hills of Mobile Parks.

KPCC reporter Frank Stoltze, Off-Ramp producer Queena Kim, and Jackson Musker find out what kind of place Oakridge was, why the fire happened, whether future mobile park fires can be prevented, and what future the park and its survivors face.