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Tag Archives: San Bruno fire
San Bruno Mosaic Commemorates Victims of PG&E Gas Fire
by Francesca Segre Members of the Bethany Presbyterian Church in San Bruno are celebrating a new mosaic mural that commemorates the lives and homes lost in the 2010 gas pipeline explosion. Of the eight people who died in the gas … Continue reading
San Bruno Says PG&E Coming Back to Table Due to Bad Publicity; PG&E Says Not Really
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Update 1:25 p.m. The city of San Bruno and PG&E today seemed to be at loggerheads — an extreme euphemism, perhaps — when the city announced that PG&E had walked away from negotiations on compensating San Bruno for the 2010 … Continue reading
PG&E Says It's Liable for the San Bruno Pipeline Accident; Victims' Attorneys Unimpressed
Update 8:10 p.m.: Per this Bay Area News Group article, attorneys for San Bruno victims are unimpressed with PG&E's mea culpa: (V)ictims' attorneys questioned whether the announcement is a genuine act of contrition or just a publicity stunt intended to … Continue reading
PG&E Fixing Woodside Pipe That Failed Pressure Test
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Engineers with PG&E are figuring out how best to remove and replace a two-foot-long section of gas pipeline in Woodside that burst after failing a pressure test on Sunday. It's a section of Line 132: the ill-fated conduit that exploded … Continue reading
More Than a Year After Explosion, San Bruno's Glenview Drive Reopens
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"Let’s take a walk," Mayor Jim Ruane of San Bruno said to the gathered crowd. It was Wednesday morning, and the mayor was inviting residents of the Crestmoor neighborhood to be the first to walk on the part of Glenview … Continue reading
Sen. Rand Paul on Why He's Single-Handedly Blocking Pipeline Safety Legislation
Avowed libertarian Rand Paul of Kentucky is single-handedly blocking legislation in the Senate meant to address some of the deficiencies in pipeline regulation that contributed to the San Bruno disaster last year. The bill, called the Pipeline Transportation Safety Improvement … Continue reading
NTSB Releases Final San Bruno Report, Video
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The NTSB has released its final, 140-page report on the San Bruno disaster (pdf) of a year ago. Here is the Executive Summary, Investigation Synopsis, and 28 Findings, which were released last month at a scathing hearing on the causes … Continue reading
