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Pipeline Leak Causes Explosion December 22, 1980: - MORE
Pipeline Leak Causes Explosion December 22, 1980: - MORE
SAN BERNARDO, Calif. - At 8:11 a.m. this morning an explosion shook the Las
In the neighborhood between Duffy Street and Highland Avenue 100 foot flames
were sighted engulfing at least seven houses. A thick cloud of gray-black smoke from
the explosion was reported visible as far as neighboring communities Riverside and
Ontario.
There are currently two confirmed deaths in one of the homes on Duffy Street.
Firefighters are looking for a third person believed to have been in the same home.
unleaded gasoline were spilled over the course of two hours, spraying onto some of the
nearby houses.
About 700 people in the area have been evacuated to a Red Cross evacuation
center that has been set up at the Job Corps Center, 3753 Kerry St.
Currently, 13 residents of the area have been admitted to San Bernardino County
We dont know the cause of the break. It could have been the train, obviously,
Two weeks earlier in the same neighborhood, a freight train derailed and crashed
into a string of houses. No evidence so far supports a link from this event to the
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explosion. Experts who examined the pipelines following the train incident deemed
there to be no danger.
Miretta Brumlow, a resident of Adams Street was in her home when the explosion
occurred. I felt my whole house shake. I thought it was an earthquake. Then I looked
out and I saw the fire and I just started crying, she said.
The Calnev pipeline, owned by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, is used to carry
unleaded fuel from Colton, CA. to North Las Vegas, NV. It consists of two parallel lines,
with diameters of 8 and 14 inches respectively. The 14-inch pipeline, the line that
ruptured, can carry more than 3.3 million gallons of fuel, jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel.
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