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BASEMENT BOX 66.0423
Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters atop a smoldering building. A firetruck is in the foreground. Caption: "Firemen chop holes in the roof of Fuzzy's Club to get at flames."
Date:
April 4, 1974
Creator:
Tapscott, George
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 66.0424
Photograph taken during daylight of a firefighter emerging from a hole in a roof. Caption: "From the smoke and heat of a fire in a Hamilton Courts apartment unit, a fireman checks the roof for sparks."
Date:
April 15, 1974
Creator:
Carter, J. Pat
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 66.0446]
A daylight photograph of tire ruts caused by a fire truck driving over soggy ground. The emergency vehicle was responding to a fire at the John Magill residence at 1217 Northeast 67th Street in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma. Caption: "[A soggy approach] didn't make a difference to fire trucks racing to the John Magill home at 1217 NE 67 Wednesday."
Date:
April 12, 1967
Creator:
Argo, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0045]
Photograph is of a industrial refinery that has a large dark plume of smoke rising from the background. Caption: "An estimated $100,000 damage resulted from a series of explosions and fire Tuesday night at the Ben Franklin Oil Co. refinery north of here."
Date:
April 16, 1958
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0096
Photograph taken during daylight of four men standing in the wreckage of a building that burned. Caption: "Monday's noon sun beamed in on the fire-gutted Regath drugstore at Chandler after a $100,000 fire destroyed it, a variety store next door on the north and the entire second story of both buildings, which housed two businesses and two apartments."
Date:
April 14, 1947
Creator:
Johnson, Bill
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0115]
Photograph is of two men surveying the remains of a home that has been consumed with flames and burnt to the foundation. Black burnt rubble is all around the two men. An oven is the only recognizable item. Caption: "A gas range, standing among ashes, was about all that remained of the Sam Bidwell home Saturday morning after an explosion and flash fire claimed the lives of four children and injured the mother of one."
Date:
April 17, 1948
Creator:
Cobb, Richard
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0165
Caption: "Flame ravaged home of Norman Kroutil, Yukon Flour Mill executive, was described as a total loss after a Sunday morning fire."
Date:
April 4, 1966
Creator:
Lucas, Jim
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0195
Photograph of a smoldering grass fire. Caption: "Gusty winds made a blazing inferno of a grass fire as it flamed out of control"
Date:
April 3, 1964
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0202
Photograph taken at night of crowd watching as a fire crew works to extinguish a building fire. Caption: "Warren Bickford building"
Date:
April 6, 1954
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0207
Photograph taken during daylight of building wreckage after a fire. Caption: "Giant cranes collapse the wall around Blackwell's Security Bank building which was ruined by Saturday night's fire"
Date:
April 6, 1954
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0209
Photograph taken at night of crowd watching as firefighters work to extinguish a burning building. building burns. Caption: "Fire at its height in the Oklahoma Tire and Supply building before it spread to the Security Bank Building"
Date:
April 6, 1954
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0210
Photograph taken at night of people near a burning building. Caption: "Fire belches out of the Oklahoma Tire and Supply."
Date:
April 6, 1954
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0211
Photograph taken at night of a firefighter standing next to a burning building. Caption: "This is what Blackwell firemen found when they arrived at the scene of the disastrous fire here Saturday night"
Date:
April 6, 1954
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0260]
Photograph is of a single story structure that has been gutted out by a fire. The flames are still visible and smoke is rising out of the top of the structure where a roof once was. The silhouette of a fireman is in front of the building.
Date:
April 14, 1954
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0262
Photograph taken at night of a structure engulfed in flames and smoke. Silhouettes of people in a crowd are in the foreground.
Date:
April 14, 1954
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0312
Photograph taken at night of two buildings during or after firefighters extinguish a fire.
Date:
April 16, 1955
Creator:
Ford, Ray
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0313]
Photograph is of a fireman on top of the open ladder off the fire pump truck spraying an open hose onto the roof of a burning brick building. Smoke is billowing out of the roof of the building. Two other firemen are holding hoses that are spraying into the broken windows into the multiple story structure from the ground.
Date:
April 16, 1955
Creator:
Ford, Ray
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0314]
Photograph is of a fire pump truck parked in front of the J.C. Penny's building. Three fire hoses and a fully opened fire ladder are maned and spraying open water hoses on the fire. There is a ladder leaning against the building leading to a window that flames are visible through. The brightness from the flames and the billows of smoke are rising from the destroyed roof of the structure. Caption: "a $500,000 fire destroyed the J. C. Penney store here early Friday and damaged adjoining Montgomery Ward and Woolworth's firms with smoke and water. The three business buildings are located on the north side of the downtown square."
Date:
April 15, 1955
Creator:
Ford, Ray
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0315
Photograph taken during daylight of firefighters extinguishing a building fire. Caption: "More than $500,000 damage was caused by fire early Friday in downtown Enid when the J. C. Penney Co. store was destroyed and Woolworth and Montgomery Ward stocks were damaged. Above, Enid, Blackwell and Vance Air Force base fireman put water into the Penney building. This picture was flown to Oklahoma City by a Champlin Refining Co. plane."
Date:
April 15, 1955
Creator:
Ford, Ray
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0317]
Photograph is an aerial shot of the roof that has collapsed and been destroyed by a fire from within the building. An unidentified man is inside the remains of the building surveying the burnt remains. Everything that is visible inside the building is burnt. Photograph was taken in the day time.Caption: "Some of the remains of the approximately 35 automobiles, 29 of them 1957 models, destroyed in Friday's #35,000 fire at the Richardson Pontiac-Cadillac Co. in Enid, may be seen in this photograph of fire gutted second story."
Date:
April 6, 1957
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0343
Photograph of a forest fire. Caption: "Intensity of the fire sweeping acres of forest lands in southwestern Oklahoma is shown in this aerial photo."
Date:
April 6, 1966
Creator:
Wood, Tony
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[BASEMENT BOX 67.0346]
Photograph of a sign featuring Smokey the Bear, used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. The text of the sign says, "Today's Forest Fire Danger: Severe." There are trees in the background. Caption: "Smokey the Bear flashes the right sign for forest fire conditions in southeastern Oklahoma. The sign is near the Oklahoma Forestry Fire Control division headquarters at Broken Bow where officials have warned that conditions still are severe although fires have lessened."
Date:
April 9, 1955
Creator:
unknown
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0347
Photograph taken during daylight of a smoldering field with oil tanks and a beam engine.
Date:
April 14, 1970
Creator:
Aker, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
BASEMENT BOX 67.0348
Photograph taken during daylight of grass fire. Caption: "Firefighters fight range fire near Okmulgee Tuesday."
Date:
April 14, 1970
Creator:
Aker, Joe
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History