Five Years After Deadly San Bruno Explosion: Are We Safer?

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California Public Utilities Commission President Michael Picker says that PG&E’s "unevenness" concerns him. Photo by Rebecca Bowe/KQED

By Rebecca Bowe and Lisa Pickoff-White, The California Report

Sept. 9, 2010: a cool, breezy Thursday evening, not much different from most other weekday nights in San Bruno’s Crestmoor neighborhood. Residents were arriving home, making dinner, hanging out with their families. Then, at the corner of Glenview Drive and Earl Avenue, came a blast so powerful that one resident said it sucked all the air from her living room.

The fireball that soared into the sky at 6:11 p.m. instantly transformed the neighborhood into a scene of chaos, with people dashing from their homes, first to see what happened, then to try to escape with their lives.

Read the complete story at The California Report.
 

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