San Bruno explosion: Families fear worst

[marmar]

from the San Francisco Chronicle:



Families of some of the four people killed in the explosion and fire that leveled a San Bruno neighborhood started to get the bad news today, while the list of governmental agencies investigating the blast piled higher by the hour.

Relatives of 81-year-old Elizabeth Torres, whose house on 1630 Claremont Drive was two doors from where a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. pipeline ruptured and exploded Thursday evening, believe that she is among the dead. A body was found at her Crestmoor neighborhood home, but the identity has not been confirmed pending a check of dental records, the San Mateo County coroner said.

Torres' daughter-in-law, Teresa Whorton, said she was born and raised in San Francisco, has nine children and loves flowers and plants.

"She was a kind, loving person," Whorton said. "Very caring and sometimes stubborn. She was a Capricorn. She loved her kids.

"Everybody on the block knew her and cared about her." ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/09/10/BAVQ1FBPMD.DTL#ixzz0zBINAFgT

[truedelphi]

1. At four Pm today, the fire fighters had not gotten to some 25% or so of the

Destroyed homes. Those homes and properties were still too hot to have people walking around their footprint.

The death rate is going to climb.

And meanwhile, P G & E can find "no proof" of anyone calling and complaining about the smell of gas. And KRON 4 says that makes it "official" - no one called in those weeks to complain.

It pays to be a powerful utility that has spent millions for a proposition on the ballot, even if the prop gets defeated. It means you still have a claim on what and how things are reported.

[demosincebirth]

2. They'll probably jack up our rates to pay for the damage that was caused

by their negligence