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Order Number	00095581
Title	Many injured by ammonia from dairy plant blast
Photographer	Knudsen, Anne.
Collection ID	Herald Examiner Collection
Location/Accession	HE_b007_f2_i56-9
Date	1980
Physical Description	1 photographic print :b&w ;26 x 22 cm. on sheet 29 x 24 cm.
Historical Data	A pocket of natural gas exploded early Thursday in the midst of a crew of workers drilling a Metropolitan Water District tunnel 250 feet beneath Sylmar. The explosion turned the 21-foot-high tunnel into an inferno of blazing gases. Sixteen men were believed killed in the blast or in the flames and suffocating smoke that followed, and it was almost 10 hours before the first bodies could be removed. By late Thursday night seven bodies had been removed, and by Friday morning, five other bodies were taken out but the bodies of four other victims remained undiscovered. The explosion was the second in two days at the Metropolitan Water District's San Fernando Tunnel. Both explosions were blamed on methane, the natural gas found in oil fields. Methane is natural gas, the same as that used in gas ranges. In its normal state it is colorless and odorless.
Description	Inside the Knudsen Corp. dairy products plant in Central Los Angeles, water and ammonia covered the floor following an earth-shaking explosion. A huge cloud of ammonia gas overcame or seared scores of persons, dozens of which were taken to area hospitals for treatment. Photograph dated February 21, 1980.
Subject	Knudsen Corporation. Dairy processing--California--Los Angeles. Dairy plants--California--Los Angeles. Explosions--California--Los Angeles. Ammonia--California--Los Angeles. 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