PG&E Report Lists 239 Gas Lines 'At Risk Of Failing'
Pacific Gas and Electric considers 239 of its natural gas transmission lines to be at risk of failing - in a fashion similar to the line that exploded in San Bruno almost two years ago.
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Pacific Gas and Electric considers 239 of its natural gas transmission lines to be at risk of failing - in a fashion similar to the line that exploded in San Bruno almost two years ago.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co. said a pipeline strength test the company performed in 1956 damaged a weld and led to the 2010 explosion in San Bruno that left eight people dead and destroyed dozens of homes.
Following a four-alarm fire in San Francisco's Portola neighborhood that injured a construction worker who had hit a gas line, PG&E and fire officials met to review response to the resulting blaze.
PG&E spokesman Joe Molica said the San Bruno Avenue fire presented a "unique situation." In a normal situation crews can shutoff a building's gas valve but in this case the valve was too close to the fire.
One person was critically injured as San Francisco firefighters battled a four-alarm gas fire in the city's Portola neighborhood Tuesday afternoon.
The California Highway Patrol has closed the eastbound lanes of Highway 4 in Hercules Tuesday afternoon after a vehicle struck a telephone pole causing live wires to fall across the lanes and stop traffic.
A Northern California PG&E customer said he received a bill for almost $3,000, after the utility failed to send his bill to his post office box.
Assemblyman Jerry Hill says he doesn't want fines PG&E will pay to California for the San Bruno pipeline fire and explosion to be swallowed up by the state's general fund.
Marin county residents have an important decision to make in the next few weeks. Consumers are being asked to decide if they want to continue buying their power from PG&E, or switch to Marin Clean Energy, a program offered by the Marin Energy Authority, that offers more power from renewable sources at a few dollars more a month.
Families returning to a San Bruno neighborhood destroyed by the 2010 gas pipeline explosion got an official welcome home by city officials on Monday.
A bicyclist was critically injured in a collision with a PG&E vehicle in San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood Wednesday morning, police and fire officials said.
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The San Bruno City Council is taking three options into consideration over what to do with the pipeline involved in the 2010 blast that killed eight people.
The memo found that the pipeline that exploded in 2010 in San Bruno had a history of bad welding.
Power has been restored to residents in San Mateo Saturday following an incident in which a man was fatally injured while trying to move a downed power line.
The California Public Utilities Commission confirmed Thursday that PG&E will be fined nearly $17 million for irregularities in the utility's gas pipeline safety testing in Contra Costa County.
Stormy weather in the Bay Area knocked out power to thousands of PG&E customers around the region on Thursday night and Friday morning, a utility spokeswoman said.
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PG&E unveiled a first for the utility Thursday - extended range electric pickup trucks, which the company claims have the potential to transform the way electrical outages are managed.
Pacific Gas and Electric has asked state regulators for permission to pass along to consumers the cost of upgrading its natural gas transmission system to safety standards adopted after the deadly San Bruno pipeline explosion.
Some 22,000 PG&E customers lost power in the East Bay Friday evening. Customers in two San Francisco neighborhoods were also impacted by outages.
PG&E has already reached a $70 million settlement with the city of San Bruno, though individual victims won't receive any portion of those funds. Instead, 8 individuals have banded together - they are representative of people who lost loved ones, suffered their own physical injuries or lost property in the blast.
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A man suspected in a 2008 cold case murder in San Francisco was arrested after he was found to be living in Las Vegas, authorities said.
Economists caution that large regional estimates do not necessarily show how much money reached individual neighborhood businesses or whether the gains continued after visitors left.
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