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Three firefighters work to contain fire from an oil explosion at Petrol Corporation Refinery, Vernon, 1935

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Title: Three firefighters work to contain fire from an oil explosion at Petrol Corporation Refinery, Vernon, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 13, 1935
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
This photograph appears with the article, "Blasts Rock Oil Section: One Hurt and Property Loss in Fire High in Series of Six Explosions," Los Angeles Times, 14 Sept. 1935: 1.
Handwritten on negative: Oil Explosion Bandini Road.
Text from negative sleeve: 2314. Oil Explosion. Box 5. Bandiani Road [sic.]. 9/7/35.
Text from newspaper caption: Flames Fought Among Kerosene Tanks: Surrounded by tanks holding thousands of gallons of kerosene and gasoline, firemen last night won a fight to control a blaze at the Petrol Corporation Refinery on Bandini Boulevard which started from an explosion at a tank wagon. Firemen here are quelling a blaze in one of five kerosene tanks that exploded while the flames are consuming another tank in the right background.
Type: Image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10278
ark:/21198/zz002hb6xn
Subject: Explosions--California--Vernon
Fires--California--Vernon
Fire fighters--California--Vernon
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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