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 Castro Gas Main Break Prompts Shelter-In-Place View Larger Map Evacuations and a shelter-in-place are underway in the Castro today due to a "big gas main break" at 18th and Hartford. SFPD confirmed this to SFist, saying that the fire
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 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 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: 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 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 State Orders PG&E to Inspect All Gas Pipes The California Public Utilities Commission has ordered PG&E to check for leaks in of its gas lines. This, of course, comes on the heels of Thursday's San Bruno fire and explosion.
SF News Some San Bruno Residents Return Home at Noon After Thursday's natural gas pipeline explosion, which displaced many San Bruno citizens, several residents will be allowed to return home at noon today. "At a news briefing this morning, San Bruno City Manager
SF News Timeline of S.F. Manhole Cover Explosions View PG&E Underground Fires (2005-2010) in a larger map Two manhole covers exploded this morning in the city's Financial District. The early morning explosions, according to PG&E, were due
SF News San Bruno Residents Allegedly Reported Leak Days Before Fire Thursday's natural gas fire, which sparked a bit before 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, originated from a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. gas line. PG&E President Chris Johns, according to
SF News WTF?! Fall Already Here? S.F. Sees Its First Rain Last Night Parts of SoMa, Laurel Heights, and the Western Addition experienced power outages last night relating to an unusual September downpour around 3 a.m. that stirred up a bunch of summer dust and
misc What's Going On Here, PG&E Truck? Spotted outside AT&T Park this week, the folks at JustMarried.us sent us this quick phone shot of a PG&E truck's not-so surprising political sentiment. Find out what it
SF News Jerry Brown Nets $400 Million for California Enron Victims Attorney General and gubernatorial candidate and Jerry Brown revealed today that $400 million in refunds are heading to California consumers who were "victimized by market manipulation and exorbitant prices during the energy crisis
SF News Big Boom on Embarcadero? We're getting reports that a PG&E transformer blew (or something like that) with some kind of explosive noise, causing a power outage at the Ferry Building and some flickering around the
SF News Thousands Lose Power On Peninsula Due to this storm thing that's happening outside, about 26,000 PG&E customers lost power between last night and this morning. Of those, the majority are on the peninsula and in
SF News Thousands of San Francisco PG&E Customers Without Power Emergency_In_SF and AlertSF report that there are an estimated 4,700 to 4,800 customers without power in Potrero and Bayview. "PG&E en route with no estimated time for
SF News East Bay Gas Pipes to Be Extra Stinky Today A batch of natural gas coming down a Pacific Northwest pipeline was mistakenly produced with too much odorant -- the stuff called mercaptan that smells like sulfur that they add to the usually
SF News The Storm: She Is Here Get out those water wings, kids! The worst of the rain is expected to fall today between, um, right now (7 a.m.) and 7 p.m. tonight, and there's a wind advisory
SF News Mylar Balloon Causes Castro Power Outage Last night in San Francisco's notoriously gay Castro neighborhood, 2,8000 were rewarded with forgiving, soft candlelight after a power outage hit the area for about an hour or so. The cause of
SF News <em>Another</em> Underground Fire on Polk Street? Video footage via SF Appeal We received an alert from the handy AlertSF.org (where were you, Emergency_In_SF?!) that there was another underground fire that occurred several hours ago in the
SF News Power Outage Hits SOMA / LORI (Update) A power outage brought the world as we know it to a halt today in the SOMA / LORI neighborhood, most egregiously affecting SFIst HQ. (Damn you to hell again, PG&E.) From
