| Fire Hits Baltimore Waterfront | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1581 |
| Catalog #: | 352446 | |
| Clip Number: | 352446-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 026-441-02 | |
| Timecode: | 00:45:36 - 00:46:20 | |
| Location: | Baltimore, Maryland | |
| Year Shot: | 1953 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | DISASTERS: Damage / Aftermath DISASTERS: Fires FIREFIGHTING: Work LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Maryland TRANSPORTATION/BOATS & SHIPS: Waterfronts | |
| Description: | Dull in imagery and contrast Fanned by a forty-mile an hour wind a blaze sweeps across several piers and destroys millions of feet of lumber and causing damage amounting to more than two million dollars. Aerial shot - Mass of smoke and you see hire hoses streams of water and smoke billowing up into the sky the camera is panning CUS - Fire boats fighting the blaze Aerial shot - Total destruction to the pier MLS - Firemen fighting the blaze, three industrial plants and three piers destroyed. You see the aftermath of destruction to the plants and piers Aerial shot - The ruins of the piers and buildings. Fireman still fighting outbreaks of small fires | |
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