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Firefighters hose down fire from oil explosion at the Petrol Corporation Refinery, Vernon, 1935

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Title: Firefighters hose down fire from oil explosion at the Petrol Corporation Refinery, Vernon, 1935
Date Created and/or Issued: September 13, 1935
1935-09-13
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.
Firefighters hose down fire from oil explosion at the Petrol Corporation Refinery. Fires blaze in the background, the ground is slick, and more firefighters are visible on the right under wreckage hosing down the ground.
Related to Los Angeles Times article, "Blasts Rock Oil Section: One Hurt and Property Loss in Fire High in Series of Six Explosions," 14 Sept. 1935: 1.
Text from negative sleeve: 2314. Oil Explosion. Box 5. Bandiani Road [sic.]. 9/7/35.
Handwritten on negative: Oil Explosion Bandini Road.
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_10279
ark:/21198/zz002hb6z5
Subject: Explosions--California--Vernon
Fires--California--Vernon
Fire fighters--California--Vernon
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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