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Tanker Blast Kills 9 In California
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keywords: tragedies and disasters, tanker explosion
Synopsis: A boiler explosion rips into a tanker being refurbished at a dry dock in Alameda CA with 9 killed and 50 injured trapped inside until an escape hole could be cut into the side of the tanker allowing for rescue...(read more)
- Date: 1957
- Duration: 00:00:33
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States
Tanker Blast Kills 9 In CA
Nine die and 50 are badly burned in a below-decks explosion that rips a dry-docked oil tanker in Alameda California. A hole is cut through the side of the vessel so rescuers can remove the dead and injured from the wrecked engine room.
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- Newsreels: 1957 - January 31
