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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
Pepperdine University. Special Collections and University Archives.
Title: Woolsey Fire Memory Project
Identifier/Call Number: 0181
Physical Description:
21 Gigabytes
Date (inclusive): 2018-2019
Physical Description: This collection is comprised entirely of digital surrogates.
[Box/folder# or item name], Woolsey Fire Memory Project, Collection no. 0181, Malibu Historical Collection, Special Collections
and University Archives, University Libraries, Pepperdine University.
The Woolsey Fire started on November 8, 2018, reaching Malibu in the early hours of November 9th. By the time it was contained
nearly two weeks later, the fast-moving wildfire had burned 96,949 acres of land, destroyed 1,643 structures, and forced nearly
300,000 people to evacuate. The fire touched all of us in the community and continues to impact many of our everyday lives.
The Woolsey Fire Memory Project collects, preserves, and presents the history of the Woolsey Fire and its impact on our local
community, with a focus on Malibu and Pepperdine University. The goals of this project are to help community members process
and heal from this disastrous event by sharing their stories, and to preserve a record of the event for future generations.
This digital collection includes photographs, videos, oral history recordings, and written accounts by members of the community
who have generously shared their Woolsey stories with us. We are grateful to each of them.
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and the copyright holder.
Collection can be viewed online in the Pepperdine Digital Collections.
This finding aid was created in May 2020 by Brendan Morris.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Malibu (Calif.) -- History
Wildfires -- California, Southern
Pepperdine University