On September 3, 1912, Companies A, C, E and F, and Detachment, Hospital Corps, 7th Infantry Regiment (now the 160th Infantry Regiment), were called out to preserve order at Ocean Park, Los Angeles County, California, where a great contlagrntion had started, where several lives were lost, and nine blocks of business and residential property were burned down. The Mayor of Los Angeles and officials of Ocean Park called upon the Acting Governor for help, stating that approximate 60,000 sightseers and adventurers had rushed in and overrun the town, while the fire was in progress, and that the legal authorities had lost all control of the situation.
