1973 Press Photo US Coast Guardsman views burning freighter Key Largo
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Description
A US Coast Guardsman views the burning freighter Key Largo from a helicopter over the Mississippi River some 50 miles south of New Orleans. Authorities evacuated several hundred people from a nearby town as the Liberian ship is carrying containers of highly volatile, toxic tetra-ethyl lead.
