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This August 28, 1932 fire claimed River Lines company’s freighters Sacramento, Valetta, San Joaquin No. 2, San Joaquin No. 4, San Jose, Flora, Jacinto and Colusa, and barges Maryland and Alabama. An additional victim in the fire was River Lines’ Yolo Dry-dock, visible in the lower right-hand corner of the photograph. According to Sacramento Fire Department Chief M.J. Dunphy, it was one of the first cases in the department’s history where a fire was left to burn itself out.
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