Battling waterfront blaze

Thick smoke billowing from warehouses; pedestrians watching from snow-covered pier at left; fireboat and other moored vessels at left. Caption: "Battling waterfront blaze: From fireboats and ashore, firemen struggle with $3,000,000 blaze roaring through four warehouses on Red Hook waterfront at Atlantic Basin. Fifteen firemen suffered injuries in explosion which ripped out thick wall of one building...."