Two years since the San Bruno gas pipeline line rupture

Don't forget us and what happened.

San Mateo County Times/Joshua Melvin, 9/4/12.  "San Bruno fire victims:  'We don't want to be forgotten'."

Crestmoor neighborhood explosion remembered, utility reforms

 ....  "Just days shy of the anniversary of the Sept. 9, 2010 disaster she, her neighbors as well as state and local leaders on Tuesday urged utility regulators and Pacific Gas & Electric not to forget what happened there. The push for remembrance comes as PG&E asks rate payers to cover 85 percent of billions of dollars in pipe safety work and opposed legislation, its author said, intended to reform the company's culture.

DeRenzi said she used to trust the city, PG&E and state regulators until the ruptured gas line fueled a fire that killed eight of her neighbors and destroyed 38 homes. Federal investigators ruled the 30-inch diameter pipe tore open along a poorly welded seam that lay undiscovered since the line was laid in the 1950s. DeRenzi continues to worry it could happen to someone else.

....  Residents of the devastated neighborhood are focusing on the promise of new, tougher laws.
"The reality is it's too late for us, it's too late for our neighborhood and it's too late for our neighbors" said resident Bill Magoolaghan, whose home was ruined. "But putting legislation like this in place is just in time, perhaps, to keep another neighborhood from having this type of disaster."

San Bruno has planned a memorial event from 5 to 7 p.m. Sunday at City Park, which is near the corner of Crystal Springs Road and Oak Avenue.   Read article, includes 8 photographs from  Assemblyman Jerry Hill (I) news conference, 9/4/12."  Note:  the above photograph is from the article.

Related -  Mercury News/Joshua Melvin, 9/6/12. "Regulators find no evidence of bad PG&E welds, officials say."

Posted by Kathy Meeh