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Ruptured gas line caused an explosion in San Bruno, California, killing four people, injuring dozens and destroyed almost 40 homes. A natural gas explosion and inferno turned parts of San Bruno, adjacent to the San Francisco International airport, into wreckage. Emergency services spent early this month sifting through the debris for bodies. In all, four died, including Jacqueline Greig, 44, and he 13-year-old daughter, Janessa, whose house at 1670 Claremont Drive was destroyed. Ironically, Greig worked for the California Public…

A natural gas line exploded earlier this month outside a large Minneapolis supermarket, sending flames hundreds of feet into the air and creating a mess during rush hour. No serious injuries were reported. The explosion, which occurred just a few hundred feet from the I35 freeway during morning rush-hour traffic, burned parked vehicles and blew a hole in the street, forcing an eight-block evacuation area and a closure of the freeway. Heat from the fire damaged some lines, street lights…

Reports say a gas main that exploded in a residential neighborhood in Philadelphia killied a gas company employee and injured six people. The explosion occurred in the Tacony neighborhood of Philadelphia earlier this month after residents complained about a strong smell of gas, reports say. The result was a three-alarm fire that spread to three houses and four cars and took about three hours to put out, reports say. As Philadelphia Gas Works employees tried to shut off gas to…

The 16-year-old girl killed in a crash in a Wal-Mart parking lot was laid to rest earlier this month, reports say. The young girl, Ashley Moore, died when the SUV she was riding in smashed into the fire exit doors and a portion of the brick wall on the front of the Wal-Mart store in Dunn, (???). The driver of the car, boyfriend Dillon Tart, survived the crash. Reports say an eyewitness heard Moore screaming before the SUV accelerated through…

A vendor for Pepsi Beverages Company of Roanoke, Edward Smallwood, suffered severe head trauma while making a delivery Friday morning at the Salem Walmart, reports say. Smallwood, 33, was injured in the loading dock area when he went under a metal ramp to pick up an item and the ramp fell on him. The incident is being investigated by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He was transported to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and was still considered critical earlier…