SF News The ‘Orange Sky’ Was Also the 10th Anniversary of the San Bruno Pipeline Explosion Wednesday’s ominous dark orange skies came literally on the 10-year anniversary of the San Bruno explosion, a sort of horrible reminder of PG&E’s staying power.
SF News PG&E Fires or Suspends 18 Employees In Scandal Over 1,200 Fraudulent Inspections PG&E is supposed to be more vigilant and safety-oriented these days, after blowing up a cul de sac in 2010 and killing eight people in San Bruno, but as it happens,
SF News Another Gas Leak In San Bruno; This Time, a Contractor's Fault Just yards from where the high-pressure gas pipe sprung a leak and caused a massive fireball in San Bruno in 2010, a private contractor busted open another gas pipe yesterday, letting loose some
SF News PG&E Finally Admits Liability In San Bruno Blast Fifteen months after a high-pressure gas line explosion killed eight people and decimated a neighborhood in San Bruno, PG&E may finally be willing admit they might have done something wrong. It's
SF News PG&E Just Might Kill Us All Did you hear that a leaky gas pipe destroyed a home in Cupertino the other day? Just a day after the Feds slapped PG&E up the side of the head with
SF News PG&E Gets Slapped Up the Side of the Head By Feds for San Bruno Blast The results of the federal probe into the San Bruno gas line explosion of last September were finally presented yesterday, and the NTSB has placed all the blame for the tragedy on PG&
SF News Natural Gas Explosion in PA Damages More Than 20 Homes A very similar-seeming explosion to the one in San Bruno has occurred in Allentown, Pennsylvania, quickly leveling two homes and destroying six more in the resulting inferno. The explosion occurred just after 11
SF News Two Convicted of Posing as San Bruno Fire Victims Speaking of recent San Bruno fire news, 42-year-old Lisa Justin and 44-year-old Sonya Smith were convicted on Tuesday of trying to pass themselves off as victims in an effort to get relief aid.
SF News San Bruno Still Deciding How To Distribute Donations Four months after the San Bruno blast, city officials are still trying to figure out how to best distribute the $395,000 worth of donations to the victims. The issue is pretty complicated
SF News Loss of San Bruno Gas Line May Mean Heat Shortage in S.F. As the NTSB mulls whether to hold a federal hearing in D.C. on the San Bruno blast investigation, news arrives from PG&E that San Franciscans may face a natural gas
SF News San Bruno Blast May Have Been Caused By Badly Welded Pipes The investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board into the September 9 San Bruno gas line explosion has so far yielded no definitive answers about the cause of the blast or the culpability
SF News Five San Bruno Families, One Burlingame Lawyer, Bring New Suits Against PG&E Five new lawsuits were brought against PG&E in San Mateo County Superior Court yesterday, with five families affected by the September 9 inferno suing the utility for unspecified damages as well
SF News Did a Gas Line Pressure Spike Cause the San Bruno Blast? The first report from federal investigators on September 9th's San Bruno explosion came out last night, and though it gives no clear answers about the cause of the blast, it does give some
SF News San Bruno Death Toll Rises to Eight A man affectionately called "The Bug Man" for his pest control work at local elementary schools, Jim Franco (age 58), was pronounced dead over the weekend at UCSF Medical Center. He had been
SF News Feinstein and Boxer Introduce Legislation to Strengthen Pipeline Safety and Enforcement In the wake of the September 9th San Bruno natural gas explosion, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer introduced legislation to "strengthen oversight of the nation’s pipelines and increase the penalties for
SF News What's Going On Here, Galileo High School? For the second time today, another local school was evacuated over a reported "natural-gas like smell," and just like the first time no leak was found. "At least 15 teachers on the second
SF News 4 San Bruno Fire Swindlers Arrested In a failed effort to get "free food and other aid," four people were arrested on Tuesday after allegedly posing as San Bruno explosion victims. SF Chronicle reports: "The four submitted driver's license
SF News 81-Year-Old San Bruno Victim May Have Been at Home Waiting for PG&E When Explosion Occurred Another alarming nugget from today's Chron piece about the ongoing San Bruno investigation: 81-year-old Elizabeth Torres, the fourth victim of the explosion and fire just identified yesterday, may have been sitting at home
SF News 1981 San Francisco Gas Main Rupture Should Have Taught PG&E a Lesson The investigation of last week's enormous, deadly gas main explosion in San Bruno is now focusing on PG&E's inability to quickly shut off the flow of gas after the explosion occurred.
SF News San Bruno Fire: One More Thing... A thank-you sign is posted in front of a saved home about a block from destroyed homes in San Bruno, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010, where a pipeline exploded on Thursday. The tragic
SF News San Bruno Fire: What's PG&E Got to Do With It? Contrary to bumper sticker ideology, shit doesn't just happen -- at least when it comes to the San Bruno explosion fire, that is. Concern and confusion, sparked by the natural gas explosion that
SF News Help a Mother Out, Blood Centers of the Pacific, at Capacity with Donations Help a Mother Out received such a tremendous amount of donations benefiting San Bruno fire victims over the weekend that they've halted their drive. Additionally, Blood Centers of the Pacific have also received
SF News Surveillance Video Captures 'Moment of Impact' Explosion, Fireball At a gas station in San Bruno, a surveillance video caught Thursday's natural gas explosion and fire on film. "You can see one man getting ready to fill up his car when something
SF News PG&E's $100 Million Attempt at Damage Control Amid rumors of recent San Bruno gas leak reports that went nowhere with the company, that crews came out and did nothing -- allegedly, of course -- the president of Pacific Gas and
SF News SF Giants to Aid, Honor San Bruno Fire Victims On Tuesday night, the Giants will donate $3 from every ticket sold for Tuesday's game to the City of San Bruno Glenview Fire Victims Fund. The Giants will also honor the victims of
