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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The National Transportation Safety Board will hold a meeting in Washington, D.C., later this month to discuss a draft final report on the investigation into the Sept. 9 gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno.
Lead investigators will present their findings on the explosion to the five-member board on Aug. 30, NTSB spokesman Peter Knudson said.
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Officials with PG&E have reached their conclusion about what caused a natural-gas pipeline to explode in San Bruno last September. And they have concluded the event was not the utility’s fault.
Federal investigators asked PG&E, the agency that regulates it, the city of San Bruno and other parties to submit analyses about what caused and contributed to the San Bruno disaster, which took eight lives and decimated a neighborhood.
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A woman with an Indian accent yells frantically into the phone, “Come! Come! You have to come now, please! It’s my daughter, she’s having a seizure!” In the background, a man cries out and the woman begins to shriek her daughter’s name.
Ceal Hartman, a call-taker in San Mateo County’s award-winning emergency dispatch center, deals with this kind of thing every day.
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