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Order Number	00095549
Title	Sylmar water district tunnel survivor
Photographer	Messinger, Joe.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE box 9475
Date	1971
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;25 x 20 cm. on sheet 26 x 21 cm.
Notes	Title supplied by cataloger.
Historical Data	Ralph Brissette, 33, of Pacoima, who had been loading slag onto cars at the rear of the work area, was knocked down when a pocket of natural gas exploded in the midst of a crew of workers drilling a Metropolitan Water District tunnel 250 feet beneath Sylmar. He was able to stagger, semiconscious, toward the east portal more than four miles away, and was rescued by two Lockheed workers, John Wallace and John Rathburn, who were 300 feet from the site when they heard Brisette's shout for help. They found Brissette, put him on a car and headed for the Gate Shaft. A steel basket lowered by a crane was waiting at the bottom of the shaft, and Brissette was lifted from the concrete-lined opening, placed in an ambulance, and taken to Pacoima Lutheran Hospital.
Description	Ralph Brissette, 33, the only known survivor at the time of the Metropolitan Water District tunnel blast, is interviewed in his hospital bed. Photograph dated June 24, 1971.
Subject	Pacoima Memorial Lutheran Hospital (Los Angeles, Calif.). Patients--California--Los Angeles. Rescues--California--Los Angeles. Hospitals--California--Pacoima (Los Angeles). Men--California--Los Angeles. Pacoima (Los Angeles, Calif.). Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.). Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs. Herald-Examiner Collection photographs.
Format	Photographic prints
Reproduction Information	Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Sub-Collection Name	Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection