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Title
Getting the drop on blaze
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Sergieff, Mike
Contributor
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued
1988
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photograph caption reads: "A firefighter sprays water on part of a burning oil refinery in Santa Fe Springs after a Christmas-morning explosion. Two workers were slightly injured in the spectacular blaze at the Powerine Oil Co. refinery as flames flicked hundreds of feet in the air. It took nine fire engines about 40 minutes to control blaze". Photograph dated: Dec. 6, 1985.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00079302
Herald Examiner Collection
HH_b008_f1_i17
CARL0000080152
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/24818
Subject
Powerine Oil Company
Petroleum refineries--Fires and fire prevention--California--Santa Fe Springs
Petroleum refineries--Accidents--California--Santa Fe Springs
Fire fighters--California--Santa Fe Springs
Santa Fe Springs (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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