Billion Dollar Fire: Fight To Control Sahara Gas Blaze
Billion Dollar Fire: Fight To Control Sahara Gas Blaze
Clip: 361446_1_1
Year Shot: 1962
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1694
Original Film: 035-012-01
HD: N/A
Location: Sahara, Africa
Timecode: 00:20:21 - 00:21:20
Billion Dollar Fire: Fight To Control Sahara Gas Blaze For 12 weeks a 450-foot pillar of fire has raged out of control - a well in the natural gas fields of Gassi Touil in the French Sahara. Now a U.S. Team of trouble shooters is attempting to cap the flames --- for a fee of several million dollars. Pan of flames shooting in the air, flames fill screen. CU hoses spray water. Man gets out of way of falling piece of sheet metal, just in the nick of time. Workers battling flames.