";s:4:"text";s:4742:"It was California's deadliest utility disaster in decades. San Bruno Fire (Photo credit: zennie62) On September 9, 2010, a horrific pipeline explosion and fire destroyed a neighborhood in San Bruno, California. Eyewitnesses reported the initial blast "had a wall of fire more than 1,000 feet high". Introduction [] The Explosion []. The investigation followed the gas pipeline explosion in 2010 that incinerated a neighborhood in San Bruno, just south of San Francisco. The explosion is believed to have been caused by attempts to puncture the pipe … PG&E Fined $3 Million, Ending San Bruno Explosion Case Utility ordered to complete community service, serve probation in connection with 2010 pipeline blast that killed eight people Independent Review Panel Report on San Bruno Pipeline Explosion The Independent Review Panel that the CPUC formed to investigate the September 9, 2010, explosion of a Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) pipeline in San Bruno has issued its report. The escaping gas ignited and initiated structure fires in the community surrounding the pipeline. The commission previously ordered PG&E to pay $635 million for pipeline modernization after the Sept. 9, 2010, blast in San Bruno. The company still faces the possibility of a $1.4 billion state penalty, as well as federal criminal charges, for the deadly 2010 explosion of a natural gas pipeline beneath San Bruno. PG&E said it is cooperating with the investigation. On September 26, 2011 the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) made public the accident investigation report "Pacific Gas and Electric Company Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline Rupture and Fire, San Bruno, California, September 9, 2010"(NTSB/PAR-11/01, PB2011-916501). It was California's deadliest utility disaster in decades. Eyewitnesses reported the initial blast "had a wall of fire more than 1,000 feet high". The commission already fined the company $1.6 billion over the Sept. 9, 2010 explosion of a PG&E natural gas pipeline beneath San Bruno that killed eight people and … 2010 (September 9) The San Bruno pipeline explosion: At 6:11 PM, a PG&E 30-inch natural gas line exploded in San Bruno, California, killing 8.
The pipeline segment that failed in San Bruno was poorly built when it was pieced together in 1956, with a poorly welded joint containing a visible crack that PG&E's quality control failed to detect. The rupture occurred at mile point 39.28 of Line 132, at the intersection of Earl Avenue and Glenview Drive. A Pacifica native known for his love of the ocean has become the eighth person to die as a result of the natural-gas pipeline explosion that leveled part of a San Bruno neighborhood. PG&E said it is cooperating with the investigation. On September 26, 2011 the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) made public the accident investigation report "Pacific Gas and Electric Company Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline Rupture and Fire, San Bruno, California, September 9, 2010"(NTSB/PAR-11/01, PB2011-916501). Firefighters battle a fire that destroyed an entire neighborhood on Claremont Drive in San Bruno in September 2010. In the early evening of September 6, 2010, a natural gas transmission line suddenly exploded near a residential neighborhood within San Bruno, California.The blast was said to be heard throughout the whole city of San Bruno and the nearby residents recall huge walls of flames shortly after the initial blast. an intrastate natural gas transmission pipeline known as Line 132, owned and operated by the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, ruptured in a residential area in San Bruno, California. This is the company whose negligence led to a natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno seven years ago, a tragedy that killed eight people and injured more than 50. 2010: The explosion on December 19, 2010 of an oil pipeline at a Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pumping station in San Martín Texmelucan de Labastida in central Mexico, killed at least 27 people and injured more than 50. The explosion occurred just after 6:15 p.m. Thursday in a residential area near highways 280 and 380 in San Bruno, just south of San Francisco. The explosion occurred just after 6:15 p.m. Thursday in a residential area near highways 280 and 380 in San Bruno, just south of San Francisco. The investigation followed the gas pipeline explosion in 2010 that incinerated a neighborhood in San Bruno, just south of San Francisco. Thirty-eight …