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Title: Underground gas explosion in West Hollywood
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Sergieff, Mike
Date Created and/or Issued: 1984
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.
Gas Company troubleshooter walks away from the site of La Cienega, just south of Melrose, West Hollywood, where an underground explosion buckled the pavement and forced up the capped pipes. The rippled effect is caused by the escaping gas, where L.A. County Fire units stood by for possible fire or explosion. Photograph dated December 24, 1984.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;27 x 36 cm. on sheet 29 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096085
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f3_i14-2
CARL0005107621
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30146
Subject: Natural gas pipelines--Accidents--California--West Hollywood
Natural gas--Accidents--California--West Hollywood
Hazardous substances--California--West Hollywood
Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles County
Natural gas--California--West Hollywood
Streets--California--West Hollywood
La Cienega Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
West Hollywood (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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