Subject: Fires--California--Santa Fe Springs - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Oil field workers watch as fire fighters hose down a fire at the Santa Fe Springs field. The fire started at 6 am and raged for two hours as fire fighters from two county fire companies and three emergency oil company crews worked to contain it. Three oil wells were destroyed and damage exceeded $100,000
Date:: July 29, 1937
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

Description:: Oil field with a column of fire in the center and a row of pipes in the foreground.
Date:: [circa October 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: View of a column of fire in an oil field with trees and sheds in the foreground.
Date:: [circa October 1935]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Near-identical photo appears with article "Roaring Flames Turn Black Gold To Smoke: SEVEN DERRICKS GO DOWN IN SANTA FE OIL FIRE Hundreds Fight Spreading Blaze That Brings Destruction to Two Heavy Producers," Los Angeles Times, 11 Jun. 1929: A1.
Date:: June 10, 1929
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: Photo appears with article "TUNNEL TO FIGHT OIL FIRE: Engineers Plan to Dig Into Gusher and Shut Off Fuel That Feeds Raging Santa Fe Springs Blaze," Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 1928: A3.
Date:: September 19, 1928
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
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Description:: A fire engulfs one of many oil wells in an oil field in what is most likely Santa Fe Springs. Several dozen wells dot the landscape, as well as machinery, smoke stacks, pipes, and countless telephone wires and their towers. Also included in this image are pedestrians: firemen and workmen trying to attack the blaze. Several automobiles are parked near the fire. Puddles of water are located around the fire, which suggests the firemen and workers attempted to put out the fire with hoses.
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: OpenUCLA Collections
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

Description:: A tall column of fire engulfs what appears to be either a high crane or oil well in an oil field dotted with wells, other machinery, exposed piping, and bare trees. The sky is full of smoke, dark and white. This is presumably the Santa Fe Springs oil fields in Los Angeles County.
Date:: October 1935
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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