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Title: Firemen risk lives to battle fire at oil refinery
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1960
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: Firemen risked their lives to battle a million dollar fire at the oil refinery in Santa Fe Springs where flames shot high from some of nine huge storage tanks. Photo shows a fireman at the top of a tall ladder, shooting water onto the flames of the burning oil tanks. Blaze consumed 720,000 gallons of high octane gasoline. Photo dated: December 3, 1960.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037084
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040088
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12065
Subject: Santa Fe Springs Oil Refinery (Santa Fe Springs, Calif.)
Oil fields--California--Santa Fe Springs
Fires--California--Santa Fe Springs
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Santa Fe Springs
Petroleum refineries--California--Santa Fe Springs
Santa Fe Springs (Calif
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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