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The San Bruno Fire
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Eight people were killed when a natural gas pipeline exploded in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno, near San Francisco International Airport, on Sept. 9, 2010. The explosion shot a geyser of flames into the air, triggering a major fire and leaving a large crater in the ground. Some 37 homes were destroyed.
The blast and fire has prompted questions about whether Pacific Gas & Electric Co. has properly maintained its extensive pipeline network. Regulators and industry officials have promised Congress a complete review of safety rules.
San Bruno Fire in the News
Welds put most of PG&E; pipelines at risk of failure
As much as two-thirds of Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s network of major natural gas pipelines is vulnerable to failure because it was made before 1970, using welding techniques that have been outmoded for four decades,...
PG&E; to move natural-gas pipeline out of San Bruno
PG&E; President Chris Johns has committed to moving the gas pipeline that ruptured on September 9 out of the San Bruno neighborhood, according to Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) and San Bruno Mayor Jim Ruane. Yee...
San Bruno fire victims benefit @ Molloy's Tavern, Colma, October 24
Sunday, October 24 from 12 noon to 5 p.m. at Molloy's Tavern, 1655 Old Mission Road, Colma. To benefit the victims of the San Bruno natural gas explosion and fire. Please join us for a day of fun and a good cause. But...
San Bruno fire panel questions PUC enforcement
State lawmakers grilled California regulators and utility officials Tuesday over whether they had done enough to ensure the safety of a natural gas pipeline that exploded in San Bruno last month, killing eight people...
San Bruno fire: 5 families sue PG&E;
Five families victimized in the deadly natural gas pipeline explosion and fire in San Bruno took their fight to court Tuesday, filing lawsuits against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. that seek not only money but the...
San Bruno blast victims get buyout offer from PG&E;
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is offering to buy out San Bruno residents whose homes were destroyed or badly damaged in last month's deadly natural gas pipeline blast, according to documents obtained by The Chronicle....
San Bruno fire: Panel named to probe cause
An independent panel probing last month's fatal explosion of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. pipeline will include experts from academia and labor as well as a business executive who used to work for PG&E;, state energy...
San Bruno blast mystery deepens
Federal investigators' first report on the natural gas pipeline explosion and fire in San Bruno that killed eight people only deepened the mystery of what caused the disaster - but it also contains a warning for Pacific...
San Bruno residents readying to rebuild
A little more than a month after the deadly pipeline blast in San Bruno, a neighborhood that once resembled a burnt-out war zone has changed. With a landscape of barren dirt lots covering several streets, it looks like...
PG&E; to replace hundreds of emergency valves
Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said Tuesday it intends to replace hundreds of manually operated valves on natural gas pipelines with automatic shutoffs, devices that the utility concedes would have reduced the time it...
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San Bruno fire: Panel named to probe cause
An independent panel probing last month's fatal explosion of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. pipeline will include experts from academia and labor as well as a business executive.
San Bruno blast victims get buyout offer from PG&E;
PG & E is offering to buy out San Bruno residents whose homes were destroyed or badly damaged in last month's deadly natural gas pipeline blast.
San Bruno blast mystery deepens
The first federal report on the natural gas pipeline explosion in San Bruno that killed eight people only deepened the mystery.
NTSB issues prelim report on San Bruno fire
A brief power failure shortly before a deadly gas pipeline explosion in a San Francisco suburb briefly increased pressure in the pipe, according to a preliminary investigative report.
San Bruno fire death toll now 7
The death toll officially rose to seven Wednesday, with confirmation that three members of a family were killed in the Sept. 9 disaster.
PG&E; electric grid has problems, too
In June 2009, a power line from the 1920s melted inside an underground Pacific Gas and Electric Co. vault
San Bruno fire leads to vow of safety review
Regulators and industry officials at a Senate hearing Tuesday promised a complete review of
San Bruno survivors' new life near blast zone
The social workers told Bill and Nellie Bishop that the survivor's guilt would be normal.
San Bruno first responders put fears aside
As residents of a San Bruno neighborhood fled from a soaring pipeline blaze Thursday, others rushed toward the inferno.
San Bruno fire levels neighborhood - gas explosion
With a thunderous roar heard for miles, a natural gas line explosion ripped through a San Bruno neighborhood Thursday evening.
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