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Title: Oil well fire wind machine
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1929
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
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Description: The machine that made the wind that conquered a fire in a Santa Fe Springs oil field on June 15, 1929. It consists of a three-bladed airplane propellor driven by a powerful motor, and it was used to blow the heat from the men at work fighting the fire. A track of boards was built for the machine over a lake of oil, mud and water in the "hot zone" of the big fire.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00044206
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998
CARL0000048207
http://cdm16703.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/14268
Subject: Oil fields--California--Santa Fe Springs
Fires--California--Santa Fe Springs
Fire fighting--California--Santa Fe Springs
Inventions--California--Santa Fe Springs
Santa Fe Springs (Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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