Sylmar seemed jinxed when another disaster, a few months after the earthquake, hit the area. The Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Company of Seattle was digging
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LAFD History – The S.S. Markay Fire
At 2:09 a.m., June 22, 1947, horrendous explosions unexplainably erupted from the midship butane compartments. Great gobs of flame and ugly black smoke boiled hundreds of feet
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