Oil field fire, Santa Fe Springs, 1930

Description: Workers direst two two streams of water from hoses at an oil field fire, with palm trees in the background.
Caption: Text from negative sleeve: Oil Wells, Fires, Santa Fe Springs 9/19/28
Handwritten on negative: Oil well fire --- Santa Fe Springs 4-3-30
Text from negative sleeve insert: Watch your credit --------- “P & A Photos” LA 15605--------(Los Angeles Bureau). Another disastrous fire in oil field. The second disastrous oil fire since Sept. 1st, burst into flames in the Santa Fe Springs district, at 3:10 a.m. today. The well is located within half a mile of the Getty well that burned for nearly two months before it could be capped. Nine wooden derricks and a score of steel rigs crumbled under the heat of the blast, and damage mounted to nearly $500,000 within two hours after the fire started. Shooting 200 feet in the air, the flames made it impossible for the workmen to approach within a block and all efforts were turned toward preventing other rigs and nearby tanks from becoming ignited. Photo shows the derricks in the Santa Fe Springs oil field with flames sweeping over. (NY CHI) 11/9/28

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