Gas Explosion in San Bruno, CA. OMG.

It looks like mini-pics of Hiroshima. How are there only 4 people dead so far?

There are 48 pics in my link. View them all. Tell me why more people aren’t dead.

PG&E might have some ‘splainin’ to do.

You just have to feel so bad for the residents. I’d be in a state of shock for a week if this happened to me.

PG&E is so hated right now, this can’t hurt them too much.:mad:

They have cadaver and search dogs out, some people are missing. The number could go up.

On another sad note, many pets died also.

I just heard about it too and was reading the story. How horrible. I’m assuming they mean 4 confirmed dead, and the number will go up. I couldn’t find out at what time the explosion occurred, only that it was last night–does anyone know? If it was 3 am, it will be more people than at 7 pm, you know?

Holy fuck. My sister lives in San Bruno! Any idea what the address is?

Only 4 people were killed, and according to the San Francisco Chronicle there is no one still missing, so it’s unlikely that any additional bodies will be found.

Darryl Lict- I hope your sister was not directly impacted.

I looked for a thread this morning and was surprised not to find one. This has certainly dominated the news in the Bay Area.

The fire started in the vicinity of Earl Ave. and Glenview Dr., between Sneath and San Bruno Ave. just south of Skyline Dr.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=115203651140089107127.00048fdfe759741e3afd2&ll=37.627046,-122.437263&spn=0.022467,0.045447&source=embed

A shitload of raw video currently here: http://cbs5.com/

I used to live a couple of miles SW of there, on the other side of 380.

15 acres around Crestmoor Canyon, this is less than 30 minutes from where I live.

It happened around 5:30pm yesterday, so maybe many people weren’t home from work yet. I’ve heard that as many as 50 homes are just gone, almost 40 people hospitalized with injuries and some very critical condition.

If you’re the praying type now is the time.

news i heard was 4 death and 2 still unaccounted for.

national tv news had people stating they reported gas smell during past week to PG&E.

PG&E person said they were checking phone logs to see if there were reports.

I doesn’t look like that big a catastrophe to me. From the OP I thought I would be looking at, like, a whole oil refinery had blown up and devastated a whole town.

:confused: So if your entire neighborhood burned down, with several people killed, it wouldn’t be that big of a deal?

Going on record as saying PG&E stock will be worthless for the foreseeable future. The BP of California.

That was just an itty bitty crater you could fill with a few semi- trailers.

Did you look at all the photos? There were over three dozen homes completely obliterated.

With the specter of earthquakes in California, agencies are used to working without regard to city boundaries. Doc Gurley has a terrific blog describing the horror facing emergency workers. Link

Thank you, all emergency workers. You do an unimaginable job.

What homes? I don’t see any homes.

Photos 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 10, etc. You really don’t see that these used to be homes?

Well, therein lies the problem. Seriously, though, look at photos 10, 26, 33, 36, 38, 43, etc. It may not be a Bhopal sized disaster or anything, but that’s a pretty darn big explosion. If I came home and saw not only my home flattened but almost every other one on the block as well, I’d be pretty freaked out.

I’m sorry. I had just got out of a big SDMB chatroom and was still in asshole mode. Carry on.

No worries, I leave that switch on for days before I notice sometimes.

They’ve reduced the number of destroyed homes from 53 to I think 35, as they were able to get back in. The initial flame was 7 stories high, and burned like that for over an hour before they got the gas shut off. Pretty horrendous. I live across the Bay, and I could swear that I could smell gas last night.

According to the 10 PM news, still 4 dead, but others are still in critical condition. No one reported missing, but they are trying to get a count.

I am happy to say that FEMA is going to pay for 75% of the fire fighting/rescue work - California cities don’t have much money to spare these days. Though they should charge PG&E for it. I was pretty impressed with the speed and effectiveness of the response.