The Oakland Tribune Collection, the Oakland Museum of California. Gift of ANG Newspapers.
Copyright status:
In Copyright
Copyright holder:
Oakland Museum of California
Content description:
A low elevation view of 'toxic vapor rise[s] above IS 680 near Sunol," per the notation on the back of the photo. Both sides of the freeway and an on-ramp have been closed off to traffic because of acid fumes drifting across the roadway from a tank truck. The acid remaining in the leaking tank truck are being pumoped into another tank truck nearby by a hose.
Concepts:
tank truck; leak; acid
Places:
Sunol, California; Interstate 680
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