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Title: Fireball of oil blaze sears the sky
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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.
Description: The fireball over two burning tanks of volatile fuel in the Union Oil Co. tank farm at Wilmington looks almost like the fireball of an atomic bomb explosion as it sears the sky hundreds of feet over the core of the blaze. Silhouetted firemen move in to isolate the flames from other tanks. Value of the blazing fuel is estimated at $569,000. Photo dated: August 28, 1953.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00037079
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 1998.
CARL0000040083
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/12061
Subject: Union Oil Company of California
Oil fields--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles)
Fires--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles)
Oil well drilling rigs--California--Wilmington (Los Angeles)
Wilmington (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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