Surveying Damage (left) - Tempe Daily News 12/10/1977
Date12/10/1977
MediumEmulsion on paper
Dimensions5 x 5 in. (12.7 x 12.7 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Catalog number2001.19.2191
DescriptionThe rubble of an exploded apartment building. A sports car sits in the left hand side of the frame. Five firefighters stand in the background. Caption from the Tempe Daily News 12/10/1977
Firemen survey damage at west side of Parkway Apartments building on South Hardy, where an explosion believed to be caused by leaking gas line and an attempt to light a cigarette resulted in the death of one person, the critical injury of a child and an estimated $70,000 in damage to the building alone. In photo right (see 2001.19.2192), walls of a stairway well and the building lean in opposite directions after the blast which blew the railing from the stairway well straight through nearby apartment in the four-apartment complex.
The film negative of this photograph is housed in box 2G7-F.
Status
Not on view
September 1978
February 1978
February 1978