With the anniversary of the deadly San Bruno gas pipeline disaster looming, mayoral candidates lambasted Mayor Ed Lee’s praise of PG&E at a press event on Thursday highlighting a charitable program for children.
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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 cleanup after the blast.
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PG&E crews were going door to door at a townhouse complex in Cupertino this morning to inspect gas appliances and conduct a leak survey following a fire and the discovery of several gas leaks there on Wednesday.The fire at the Northwest Square complex on Wednesday occurred a day after federal investigators faulted PG&E for a series of failures that led to the deadly natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno on Sept. 9, 2010.
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Two days after the massive natural gas pipeline explosion that destroyed the Crestmoor neighborhood of San Bruno on Sept. 9, 2010, emergency workers and PG&E inspectors were on the scene to evaluate the devastation.
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A San Mateo County Superior Court judge on Thursday decided to postpone a decision on how a lawsuit filed by victims of the pipeline explosion in San Bruno should proceed against PG&E.The lawsuit involves 92 cases and 323 plaintiffs who are suing PG&E for the Sept. 9 explosion on one of its natural gas transmission lines in the Crestmoor neighborhood. The disaster killed eight people, injured dozens more and ravaged an entire neighborhood.
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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.
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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 to the right to see more pictures from the night of the explosion.
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In an all-day hearing, federal investigators summed up what many residents of San Bruno assumed months ago: PG&E is to blame for a massive pipeline blast that leveled a neighborhood and killed eight people one year ago.
National Transportation Safety Board investigators concluded the powerful utility company had several opportunities to avert the deadly Sept. 9 explosion, but failed to do so. The tragedy was made worse by PG&E’s poor response after the disaster.
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Federal investigators and safety officials tore apart Pacific Gas & Electric’s operations at a public hearing today, saying the company’s repeated failures to live up to its own safety standards over the course of decades predestined a failure like the one that occurred in San Bruno nearly a year ago.
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Washington, D.C. — Nearly a year after a natural gas pipeline blew up a San Bruno neighborhood and ended eight lives, federal investigators will reveal what they believe caused the explosion.
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