Manholes Explode in San Francisco -- Rough Day for PG&E
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Yesterday's Dresden-like scenes in San Bruno following the rupture and explosion of a subterranean PG&E natural gas pipe have dominated the news -- and rightly so. Perhaps the takeaway from this disaster is that it's going to take more than a 72-hour supply of tuna fish and flashlight batteries to make it through the next major earthquake.
So it almost comes as an afterthought that an underground PG&E fire blew a couple of manholes skyward this morning. By the way, if this sounds familiar -- it should.
Blogger Dave Schumaker did everyone a public service by compiling a quick list of all the "PG&E fire down below" stories of the past few years:
So it almost comes as an afterthought that an underground PG&E fire blew a couple of manholes skyward this morning. By the way, if this sounds familiar -- it should.
Blogger Dave Schumaker did everyone a public service by compiling a quick list of all the "PG&E fire down below" stories of the past few years:
- Aug. 2005 - Vault explosion at Post and Kearny
- June 2009 - Underground explosion at Polk and O'Farrell
- July 2009 - Underground explosion at 4th and Market
- Jan. 2010 - Underground vault fire at Geary and Jones
- June 2010 - Vault explosion in Pac Heights
- Sept. 2010 - Vault fire at Sutter and Montgomery
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