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Title: Firemen battle gasoline blaze in Sun Valley
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection;
Creator: Hyde, Alan
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1961
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
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Description: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Photograph caption dated August 9, 1961 reads "Five engine companies halted a fire that broke out in a Wilshire Oil Co. gasoline storage tank, 7905 San Fernando Rd., Sun Valley, 45 minutes after it started at 1:15 a.m. today. Battalion commander Bruce Milroy, who directed the firefighting operations, said a spark from a water heater ignited the blaze which scorched a nearby motel and damaged a gasoline tank truck."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 26 x 21 cm.
Identifier: 00154676
Valley Times Collection;
HCNVT_d058_f16_i9
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/127726
Subject: Wilshire Oil Company, Inc
Oil storage tanks
Fires
Fire extinction
Fire engines
Smoke
Signs and signboards
Sun Valley (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1961-1970

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