1940 Press Photo Engineer Puts Out Ground Fire with Dry-Ice Gas in Demonstration

Local fire department officials and many industrial executives watched this afternoon while engineers built roaring gasoline and oil fires as a feature of a fire fighting show staged at the American Can Company park on North Cortez Street. Using the latest in scientific firefighting apparatus, the demonstrators smothered the flames with carbon dioxide or dry-ice gas. The picture shows an engineer throwing the gas on a gasoline ground fire such as occurs when tank trucks crash or oil tanks overflow. The demonstration was staged by Walter Kidde and Company. New Orleans

Photo is dated 1940.

Photo measures 10 x 8.25 inches.