1973 Press Photo US Coast Guardsman views burning freighter Key Largo

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.

Photo is dated 1973.

Photo measures 10.5 x 8.25 inches.