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Before-and-After Views of San Bruno Blast [PHOTOS]

By Carl FranzenSep 13th 2010 – 9:54PM
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(Sept. 13) -- On the ground, survivors of the horrific, fatal San Bruno, Calif., gas-pipeline explosion described the event alternatively as "an earthquake," a "meteor shower," a "plane crash" and "a huge rolling ball of fire," as AOL News reporter David Knowles wrote over the weekend. But from satellites in the sky,...

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The 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 pm PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California, a suburb of San Francisco, when a 30 inch diameter steel natural gas pipeline owned by Pacific Gas & Electric exploded in flames in the Crestmoor residential neighborhood west of San Francisco International Airport near Skyline Boulevard and San Bruno Avenue.

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