@evanlovett: The Saint Francis Dam was supposed to be William Mulholland’s crowning achievement. Instead, they collapsed and is the largest disaster in Los Angeles history, and one of the largest civil engineering failures of all time. Here is a tragic story. Let’s get into it. #Mulholland #WilliamMulholland #SaintFrancis #SaintFrancisDamn #Disaster #CivilEngineering #EngineeringFailure #EngineeringFail #SantaClarita #SanFranciscoCanyon #losangeles #losangelescounty #stfrancis #stfrancisdam #stfrancisdamdisaster #lainaminute #dam #damdisaster #USHistory #TikTokLearningCampaign

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316moneh7
316moneh :
and they named a damn road after him
2025-07-14 03:47:47
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helijeff
Jeff in LA :
Thought you only report on LA city limits 🤔
2025-07-16 01:50:59
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vacationladyofleisure
LadyofLeisure :
Most people don’t know this but Mullholand didn’t have an Engineering degree! Yet they somehow let him design and build the dam.
2025-07-17 23:56:06
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collin_august
collin_august :
I think the recent fires just took the title of LA’s biggest disaster(s), but that’s just my opinion 🤷🏻‍♂️
2025-07-14 02:35:26
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dime.gone.dice
dime.gone.dice :
the Northridge earthquake might be first
2025-07-16 08:51:34
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auzsantiago
Austin Santiago :
The damn at the Hollywood Reservoir was a super similar damn which is one of the reasons they backfilled the side, facing Hollywood to avoid a similar fate.
2025-07-14 05:19:33
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firefighter69697
Always resist :
Mulholland destroyed the eastern sierras, was responsible for this disaster and yet, la honors him with his name plastered all over so cal……
2025-07-25 01:02:24
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niklamadnilyak
user5278916080407 :
The thing that made it so sad was that nobody really knows how many people died because back in those days there were a lot of people that were sleeping in tents. Farmworkers, people,traveling, etc. and they all got washed away all the way to The Ocean.
2025-08-06 13:59:20
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qvoruby
Ruby 🛍️✨ :
Baldwin Hills reservoir went down 1963… wonder who built that one 🤔
2025-07-14 20:53:41
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33_daddy_33
33_Daddy_33 :
Anyone go to parties at kret cabin up san francisquito cyn rd in the late 90s??
2025-08-31 19:43:18
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thebigjoe30
TheBigJoe :
You didn’t show the tombstone, it’s still there
2025-07-24 01:30:12
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sometal_imsteele
HEX :
I watched a video about in YouTube from ask a mortician
2025-08-04 18:59:52
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armentumanyan0920
Armen Tumanyan :
Bro the biggest disaster isn’t the damn dam. It’s our governor knowingly doing all these thigs for his own twisted will.
2025-07-22 16:20:56
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fritzcat743
Fritz the cat :
yes it was a ways out in SanFransisquito Canyon and the flood pretty much followed where Ca 126 highway is now
2025-07-19 23:01:59
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micmictchell
user4499637358961 :
Wow that’s a wild piece of history
2025-07-14 03:11:29
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jo.funk
Jo funk :
Hule Howser had a show about that incident
2025-07-14 23:53:46
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ulfberht808
Ulfberht808 :
I just finished reading The Mirage Factory which detailed this in a chapter. Horrific and sad.
2025-07-14 18:56:04
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fabianmoreida
Fabian :
First comment
2025-07-14 02:22:44
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starfishthegreen
starfishtheblue :
Newspaper says 1100 dead 🙄
2025-07-15 05:53:07
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evinkennedy
Evin Kennedy :
👍
2025-07-14 03:24:41
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loquatfig
user2949487942252 :
😳😳😳
2025-07-14 04:43:11
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user7422944482852
mimi :
❤️❤️❤️
2025-07-15 03:54:49
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olegarionpatricia
olegarionpatricia :
💯💯💯
2025-07-14 14:23:44
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johnsauceda5
johnsauceda5 :
🥰🥰🥰
2025-07-16 22:59:06
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jeffmac33
Jeffmac33🇺🇸 :
👍🏻 I grew up there and riding dirt bikes all over those mountains there’s also lots of missile silos all around up there
2025-07-14 13:00:44
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