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Title
Toxic gas cloud hovers over Simi Valley
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator
Grayson, Steve
Date Created and/or Issued
1989
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
Title supplied by cataloger.
A deadly toxic cloud looms over Simi Valley at the intersection of Los Angeles Avenue and Madera Boulevard. The square-mile chlorine cloud formed after a leak at a textile plant and forced 11,500 residents out of their homes and into the rain, injuring 18 people and causing major traffic snarls. Firefighters in protective suits worked late into the evening to cap the leak. Photograph dated January 5, 1989.
Type
Image
Format
1 photographic print :b&w ;23 x 33 cm. on sheet 26 x 36 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00096050
Herald Examiner Collection
HE_b008_f1_i28-11
CARL0005108432
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/30178
Subject
Hazardous substances--Accidents--California--Simi Valley
Gases, Asphyxiating and poisonous--California--Simi Valley
Hazardous substances--California--Simi Valley
Chlorine--Accidents--California--Simi Valley
Express highways--California, Southern
Mountains--California, Southern
State Route 118 (Calif.)
Simi Valley (Calif.)
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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