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Title: Chemical fumes from El Segundo plant sicken 115
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Haering, Michael
Date Created and/or Issued: 1986
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: Emergency personnel evacuate victims of hazardous hydrochloric acid fumes at Allied-Signal Inc., a chemical plant located at 850 S. Sepulveda Boulevard and Rosecrans Avenue in El Segundo. The toxic fumes sickened 115 people and sent about 65 of them to the hospital for treatment. Photograph dated March 28, 1986.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;20 x 27 cm. on sheet 22 x 31 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096069
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f3_i1
CARL0005107605
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30123
Subject: Buildings--Evacuation--California--El Segundo
Chemical plants--California--El Segundo
Ambulances--California--El Segundo
Fire fighters--California--El Segundo
Allied health personnel--California--El Segundo
Hydrochloric acid
El Segundo (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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