Fireman battles blaze in explosion-ripped Newhall plant
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Creator
Michel, Don
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph article dated September 20, 1961 partially reads, "Dannie Bragg, 262 Rhodes Ct., Fillmore, was critically burned as flames leaped through the compressor building at Union Oil Company's Del Valley absorption plant near Val Verde....A company spokesman said he believed the gas pocket inside the sheet metal building was touched off by a spark from one of the plant's six compressors. Damage was set by firemen at $400,000."
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 21 cm. Photographic prints
Union Oil and Manufacturing Company Accidents--California--Newhall Explosions--California--Newhall Fire fighters--California--Newhall Men--California--Newhall Fire extinction--California--Newhall Fire hose Newhall (Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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