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Title: Toxic gas cloud hovers over Simi Valley
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Grayson, Steve
Date Created and/or Issued: 1989
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Photograph caption dated January 6, 1989 reads, "Air of uncertainty: Royal High School students flee fumes from chlorine cloud that covered Simi Valley yesterday morning. Square-mile cloud that formed after leak at textile plant forced 11,500 residents out of their homes into the rain, injured 18 and caused major traffic snarls. Firefighters in protective "spacesuits" worked late into the evening to cap the leak."
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;22 x 33 cm. on sheet 26 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096051
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f1_i28-12
CARL0005108433
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30179
Subject: Royal High School (Simi Valley, Calif.)
High school students--California--Simi Valley
High schools--California--Simi Valley
Hazardous substances--Accidents--California--Simi Valley
Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--California--Simi Valley
Hazardous substances--California--Simi Valley
Chlorine--Accidents--California--Simi Valley
Simi Valley (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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