Title supplied by cataloger. At least 20 workers were trapped in an aqueduct tunnel near Sylmar, Calif., after a natural gas explosion. The workers were constructing part of a five-mile tunnel for the Department of Water and Power. Photograph caption reads: "Federal authorities in cage are held by a crane beside huge exhaust pipe taking samples of exhaust to determine content of deadly carbon monoxide gas being drawn out of midway surge shaft that drops 140 feet straight down into the disaster tunnel. Readings all day Saturday were extremely high ... too high for men to survive very far toward the explosion site without oxygen tanks". Photograph dated: June 25,1971.
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Explosions--California--Los Angeles Search and rescue operations--California--Los Angeles Construction industry--Accidents--California--Los Angeles Construction workers--California--Los Angeles Tunnels--California--Los Angeles Natural gas--California--Los Angeles Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs Los Angeles (Calif.).Department of Water and Power
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