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Title: Chlorine gas leak in South Gate sends dozens to hospital
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Gulker, Chris
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Students and teachers from Tweedy Elementary School were evacuated from the area of a chlorine gas leak in South Gate. The gas leak occurred when men working on a line that carries chlorine from freight cars to a bleach plant accidentally ruptured the pipe at Purex Corp., located at Firestone Boulevard and Rayo Avenue. Photograph dated February 22, 1986.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;33 x 25 cm. on sheet 36 x 29 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00096074
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f3_i3-1
CARL0005107610
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30130
Subject: Children--California--South Gate
Ambulances--California--South Gate
Allied health personnel--California--South Gate
Chlorine--Accidents--California--South Gate
South Gate (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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