The second deadliest dam failure in U.S. history happened suddenly. The St. Francis Dam was a 205-ft-high concrete gravity arch dam located in San Francisquito Canyon, 30 miles north of Los Angeles.

The front page of the Los Angeles Times on March 14, 1928 Los Angeles Times It was three minutes before the stroke of midnight on a windy March 12, 1928, when the St. Francis Dam broke. Many of the ...

Mulholland : a man and an aqueduct -- The dam : site selection and design -- The dam : construction, operation, failure -- Disaster unleashed -- Responsibility and reparations -- The politics of ...

Nathan learns the heroic efforts of Officers Edwards and Baker during the St. Francis Dam Disaster. Lost LA host Nathan Masters joins writer Geoff Manaugh and CSU Professor José Alamillo to explore ...

In San Francisquito Canyon, the remains of the concrete St. Francis Dam stand as a chilling testament to one of California’s deadliest disasters. Collapsing in 1928 and releasing over 12 billion ...