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In reply to the discussion: Look at West, Texas on Google Maps [View all]pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)33. A gasoline pipeline exploded at the end of my street in L.A. in 1976; 4 dead, 16 injured
It was a gasoline pipeline from the Standard Oil refinery in El Segundo, struck by a backhoe during a street-widening project on Venice Bl. on the border of Palms/Culver City. None of us in the neighborhood had any idea that we had a gasoline pipeline running through our community. Minutes before the blast my wife returned home from shopping at the grocery store that was destroyed.
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I'm glad you got the order of things right. The plant and storage tanks were there before...
slackmaster
Apr 2013
#2
It is too bad that local planning/zoning officials cannot be sued over allowing the building of
pampango
Apr 2013
#3
People buy the homes and rent the apartments that are built in proximity to these sites.
bike man
Apr 2013
#13
chlorine leak from a train wreck in rural part of san antonio killed a couple people in 2004
sammytko
Apr 2013
#31
From what I heard, the plant had been there since the 50's. It's quite likely that...
Poll_Blind
Apr 2013
#11
A gasoline pipeline exploded at the end of my street in L.A. in 1976; 4 dead, 16 injured
pinboy3niner
Apr 2013
#33