At 6:11 p.m. one Thursday evening nearly a year ago, San Bruno’s Crestmoor neighborhood transformed from a tranquil suburb to an unquelchable firestorm. Neighbors for miles around felt a ferocious roar above them, heard a walloping bang, and then witnessed a geyser of flames and smoke shoot heavenward — which led many to believe that a plane had flown into the ground.
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Mayor Ed Lee’s campaign responded to criticism from mayoral candidates over his comments at a press event Thursday, when he called PG&E a “great company that gets it,” just days before the one-year anniversary of the deadly Sept. 9 San Bruno pipeline disaster that killed eight people and destroyed 38 homes.
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A PG&E pipeline exploded in a San Bruno neighborhood on Sept. 9, 2010.
The blast and subsequent fire killed eight people and damaged dozens of homes.
As part of the investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board, the agency released an eyewitness video of the natural gas burning.
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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.
Click on the picture to see the slideshow.
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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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