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Title: Fire Department's air attack base
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1964
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: Aerial view of the Fire Department's Air Attack Base at Lockheed Air Terminal (Bob Hope Airport). View shows (1) crew works sacks of powdered phos-chek into vat, (2) transfers it into tank where it is mixed with water, (3) transfers the completed misture to air tanker for "drop" on fire. The chemical not only helps to extinguish (smother) fires but also fertilizes soil for quick regrowth of the burned-over brush. Photo dated: August 18, 1964.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00039071
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1656.
CARL0000044083
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12424
Subject: Bob Hope Airport (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Fire departments--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Fire fighters--California--Burbank (Los Angeles County)
Burbank (Los Angeles County, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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