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Title: Blaze at the Rothschild Oil Co
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1954
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: White with heat and black with smoke, this was the height of the $500,000 blaze that raged through the Rothschild Oil Co. at 12356 Lakeland Road. Blaze threatened between 4 and 5 million gallons of petroleum products. As it was, 11 storage tanks burst into flames. They and four buildings were a total loss. Firemen, risking their lives, finally brought the fire under control. Photo dated May 19, 1954.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037091
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000040104
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12074
Subject: Rothschild Oil Company (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Oil fields--California--Los Angeles
Fires--California--Los Angeles
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Los Angeles
Petroleum refineries
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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