trapped by mud Monday at a Glendale, Calif., First Fire —Associated home. Mud Press “glaciers”? moved Wirephoto into area after 3 rains fell on nearby hills scorched by fire. By Associated Press hillside residents, only a week away from A‘ghting fire, Monday fought off an onrushing * 9a of oozy mud from 9,000 acres of blackened *atershed. \ « . More rain was forecast Monday night. and Tuesday, adding more woe to the plight of _ Tesidents of Glendale and Burbank. “A birthday cake that never will be eaten ¥ _Yested in four feet of mud in the $50,000 home of Ralph Johnson who, a week to the day, had been atop the same house with a garden hose ‘while nearby dry hills went up in flames. Johnson, his wife and her 84-year-old $ ; mother, dinner had Sunday “All we just sat night — —/Vow It’s LOS ANGELES, : March 23 — Thousands of down to when: a birthday heard was a great big whooshing sound. And then it was on top of us.” A WALL OF MUD HAD slid down a canyon, smashed out a sliding glass door, then covered every room in the house with four feet of soupy mud. “It all seems like a bad joke,” said Johnson. Other residents reported similar incidents. Ironically, re-seeding of the denuded hills with fast growing rye grass was scheduled to begin Monday. | ‘ tT Higez: bing fem ie ‘Two cars—purchased only a few days ago—are e