Title supplied by cataloger. An explosion detonated in a truck parking lot and corrugated metal storage building at 662 S. Mateo Street. The explosion was caused by a load of corrosive chemicals in a warehouse of a trucking firm. Windows and glass shattered in dozens of buildings within several blocks radius of Star Trucking Co., site of the actual blast. Captain Boyce Reynolds, LAFD measures the depression in the asphalt at the blast site where the truck exploded. The depression measured 17 ft. by 9 ft. by 5 inches deep. Photograph dated August 19, 1974.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;17 x 25 cm. on sheet 21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
Buildings--Blast effects--California--Los Angeles Debris--California--Los Angeles Fire fighters--California--Los Angeles Explosions--California--Los Angeles Lost architecture--California--Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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