Billion Dollar Fire: Fight To Control Sahara Gas Blaze
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	Catalog #:	361446
	Clip Number:	361446-1
	Orginal Film:	035-012-01
	Timecode:	00:20:21 - 00:21:20
	Location:	Sahara, Africa
	Year Shot:	1962 (Actual Year)
	Audio:	Yes
	Color:	No
	Headings:	DISASTERS: Fires INDUSTRY/POWER & ENERGY: Natural Gas LOCATIONS/AFRICA: Desert, Sahara
	Description:	Billion Dollar Fire: Fight To Control Sahara Gas Blaze For 12 weeks a 450-foot pillar of fire has raged out of control - a well in the natural gas fields of Gassi Touil in the French Sahara. Now a U.S. Team of trouble shooters is attempting to cap the flames --- for a fee of several million dollars. Pan of flames shooting in the air, flames fill screen. CU hoses spray water. Man gets out of way of falling piece of sheet metal, just in the nick of time. Workers battling flames.

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