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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and Iraqi firefighters from the Nineveh Civil Defense Department use this area of a sulfur factory near Al Shura, Iraq, July 3, 2003, as a base of fire-fighting operations, to refill water trucks and rest. The fire has destroyed most of the factory, vast amounts of sulfur, a valuable commodity, claimed several lives and destroyed nearly all of the crops in an area that stretches across approximately 20,000 square kilometers to the Southwest during Operation Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael Bracken
U.S. Army Col. Frederick Hodges, commander, 1st Brigade, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), meets with Ghamin Sultan Al Basso, interim Governor of the Nineveh Province, and several city council members July 3, 2003, at a sulfur factory near Al Shura, Iraq where soldiers and Iraqis have been fighting a fire that has raged for the a week . U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael Bracken
Firemen from the Nineveh Civil Defense Department spray water into boiling molten sulfur July 3, 2003, after a fire at a factory near Al Shura, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael Bracken
Streams of molten sulfur appear to be frozen as they pour through cracks they burned in the sulfur at a factory near Al Shura, Iraq. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael Bracken
A manager from the Nineveh Civil Defense Department at a factory near Al Shura, Iraq, looks out into the path of destruction left by a river of molten sulfur that was extinguished by soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), and Iraqi firefighters. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Michael Bracken
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