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Title: Tanker spill 7,500 gallons
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1987
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 dated August 18, 1987 reads, "Apparently, driver of oil tanker did not heed his warning signs on own truck. He reportedly did not see another truck stopped for left turn, tried to go around, missed, rupturing & spilling 7,500 gallons of light oil on Bandini near Garfield Tues. A.M. LA County firefighter tiptoes through the spill." The location of this incident is in Commerce.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00094800
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b005_f1_i59
CARL0005061322
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/33612
Subject: Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles County
Oil spills--California--Commerce
Tankers--California--Commerce
Streets--California--Commerce
Petroleum--California--Commerce
Commerce (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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