Emergency personnel look over the crater from a gas line explosion September 10, 2010 in San Bruno, California. Thirty eight homes were destroyed and four people were killed when a PG&E gas main blew up in a San Bruno, California neighborhood near San Francisco International Airport the previous evening. (Getty Images file photo)
Emergency personnel look over the crater from a gas line explosion September 10, 2010 in San Bruno, California. Dozenz homes were destroyed and eight people were killed when a PG&E gas main blew up in a San Bruno neighborhood near San Francisco International Airport the previous evening. (Getty Images file photo)
The landscape in San Bruno changed dramatically Sept. 9, 2010, when a gas pipeline owned and operated by PG&E exploded, obliterating an entire neighborhood. A year later, The San Francisco Examiner looks back at the fire, mayhem and firefighter heroism of that fateful day that took eight San Bruno lives.
Click on the photo at right to see the devastation the day after the blast.
The morning after the blast that rocked the Crestmoor neighborhood of San Bruno, the full devastation of the explosion and subsequent fire became more apparent.
