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Originally Posted by scaeagles (Post 333356)

I have read news reports that residents in the area have been reporting a smell of gas for over a week. If that's the case, I would suspect that PG&E (is it PG&E? It was when I lived in Napa during high school) is going to be paying out a whole bunch in both property damages and punitive.

It was PG&E. A three-inch gas line burst.

I found this interesting:

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Michael Sah, 62, lives one block from the blast center. He said he and his wife had taken their morning walk directly over where the gas line appears to have ruptured at 10 in the morning, about eight hours before the explosion.

They smelled no gas and saw nothing amiss at the time.

And this too:

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San Bruno Fire Capt. Charlie Barringer said the neighborhood was engulfed by the time firefighters arrived, even though the fire station was only a few blocks away. He said the blast took out the entire water system, forcing firefighters to pump water from more than 2 miles away.

Both quotes from this story.