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Explosion sets homes ablaze near San Francisco
Friday, 10 Sep, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO: An explosion near San Francisco International Airport set more than a dozen homes ablaze Thursday and sent people fleeing as it spread through a residential neighborhood, witnesses said.
Local utility officials believed the source of the blast was a large natural gas pipe that ran underground through San Bruno, just south of San Francisco.
I heard a sound like a low flying plane, then all of a sudden the house shook, said Tina DiIoia, who was with her baby in their condominium in the town of San Bruno, just south of San Francisco, when the explosion occurred about a half-mile away.
Then there was another explosion. I went outside and there was debris falling from the air. Towering flames continued to blaze from the ground in what witnesses described as a massive ball of fire.
Flames had spread to more than a dozen homes and people were being evacuated from area downwind of the inferno.
It looks like the entire mountainside is burning, DiIoia said as she and her husband took their baby and evacuated the town.
The blast so close to the busy airport had initially sparked fears of terrorism, ahead of Saturday's ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, but there was no information suggesting a link. AFP
Friday, 10 Sep, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO: An explosion near San Francisco International Airport set more than a dozen homes ablaze Thursday and sent people fleeing as it spread through a residential neighborhood, witnesses said.
Local utility officials believed the source of the blast was a large natural gas pipe that ran underground through San Bruno, just south of San Francisco.
I heard a sound like a low flying plane, then all of a sudden the house shook, said Tina DiIoia, who was with her baby in their condominium in the town of San Bruno, just south of San Francisco, when the explosion occurred about a half-mile away.
Then there was another explosion. I went outside and there was debris falling from the air. Towering flames continued to blaze from the ground in what witnesses described as a massive ball of fire.
Flames had spread to more than a dozen homes and people were being evacuated from area downwind of the inferno.
It looks like the entire mountainside is burning, DiIoia said as she and her husband took their baby and evacuated the town.
The blast so close to the busy airport had initially sparked fears of terrorism, ahead of Saturday's ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, but there was no information suggesting a link. AFP
