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Government still has the responsibility to help create the conditions in which students can gain an education so they can work at Solyndra, and entrepreneurs can get financing so they can start a company, and new industries can take hold...\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. It's also worth noting, to achieve this doubling of our share of solar capacity, we actually need to make four times as many solar panels, because other countries are adding capacity, too. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_38616\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/SanBrunoPipe.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/SanBrunoPipe.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"SanBrunoPipe\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38616\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Eric Risberg-Pool/Getty\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Update 2:25 p.m. The NTSB has posted the Executive Summary of its Pipeline Accident Report, which includes 28 findings. \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/news/events/2011/san_bruno_ca/index.html\">\u003cstrong>Read it here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NTSB says this under a section called Probable Cause:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(1) inadequate quality assurance and quality control in 1956 during its Line 132 relocation project, which allowed the installation of a substandard and poorly welded pipe section with a visible seam weld flaw that, over time grew to a critical size, causing the pipeline to rupture during a pressure increase stemming from poorly planned electrical work at the Milpitas Terminal; and \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(2) inadequate pipeline integrity management program, which failed to detect and repair or remove the defective pipe section.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contributing to the accident were the California Public Utility Commission’s (CPUC) and the U.S. Department of Transportation’s exemptions of existing pipelines from the regulatory requirement for pressure testing, which likely would have detected the installation defects. Also contributing to the accident was the CPUC’s failure to detect the inadequacies of PG&E’s pipeline integrity management program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Contributing to the severity of the accident were the lack of either automatic shutoff valves or remote control valves on the line and PG&E’s flawed emergency response procedures and delay in isolating the rupture to stop the flow of gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Some of the more interesting findings:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The accident pipe would not have met generally accepted industry quality control and welding standards in 1956, indicating that those standards were overlooked or ignored.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E’s inadequate quality control during the 1956 relocation project led to the installation and commissioning of a defective pipe that remained undetected until the accident, 54 years later.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The 2008 sewer line installation did not damage the defective pipe that later ruptured.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The internal line pressure preceding the rupture did not exceed the PG&E maximum allowable operating pressure for Line 132 and would not have posed a safety hazard for a properly constructed pipe.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>PG&E lacked detailed and comprehensive procedures for responding to a large-scale emergency such as a transmission line break, including a defined command structure that clearly assigns a single point of leadership and allocates specific duties to supervisory control and data acquisition staff and other involved employees.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\nThe 95 minutes that PG&E took to stop the flow of gas by isolating the rupture site was excessive.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>Use of automatic shutoff valves or remote control valves along the entire length of Line 132 would have significantly reduced the amount of time taken to stop the flow of gas and to isolate the rupture.\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>The board also makes 29 recommendations to six different entities, including PG&E, CPUC, the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, and the Governor of California. Many of the recommendations are for new regulations or the toughening of old regulations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED Radio’s Cy Musiker will be talking with South Bay Congresswoman Jackie Speier about the report at 5:30 p.m. Speier, who sent out many \u003ca href=\"http://twitter.com/#!/repspeier\">tweets\u003c/a> from the hearing today, has been a fierce critic of PG&E. You can listen to that live on the radio or \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">right here online\u003c/a>. Check here for an \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/radionews/\">archive\u003c/a> of the discussion afterward.\u003cbr>\n\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier posts\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe Bay Citizen has a really good wrap-up of the NTSB findings in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>live blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of today’s hearing: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To recap, the five members of the National Transportation Safety Board voted unanimously that PG&E’s deficient pipeline management system – from the 1950s until the present time – was the “probable cause” of the Sept. 9, 2010 San Bruno pipeline disaster, which killed eight people. Deficient oversight by state and federal regulators were “contributing causes,” the board ruled. PG&E’s response to the disaster and its lack of emergency preparedness increased the severity of the accident, the board ruled…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other findings adopted unanimously by Board: San Bruno’s 2008 sewer project did not contribute to the accident; The pipeline didn’t meet 1950s standards; The pipeline fracture began along an deficient weld; PG&E lacked a comprehensive plan for responding to such a disaster; The 95 minutes that PG&E took to shut off the flow of gas to the rupture was exceessive; Local emergency workers and agencies coordinated their response to the disaster well; PG&E’s post-accident drug and alcohol testing program was inadequate; There is no basis to exempt old pipelines from modern inspection rules; PG&E’s gas transmission integrity program was deficient and ineffective; And the disaster was the result of an “organizational accident” – ie, there was no single cause of the accident, instead it was the culmination of systemic failures within PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>Read more here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s a little taste of the kind of shellacking PG&E took today. After rattling off a welter of systemic problems delineated in the NTSB final report, board member Robert Sumwelt sounds incredulous when he asks one of the investigators on the panel, “how does an organization get to the point where they have all these deficiencies?” Listen below…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbsumwelt.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Board member Robert Sumwelt, bemused by sheer number of PG&E organizational deficiencies board found\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbsumwelt.mp3|titles=ntsbsumwelt]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 1:05 p.m.\u003c/em> Over the past year, the San Francisco Chronicle has done a lot of terrific investigative reporting on this story. Here’s reporter Jaxon Vanderbeken summarizing some of what the paper discovered:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cembed src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/823619053\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" flashvars=\"videoId=1134718001001&playerId=823619053&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are two recent reports by Van Derbeken worth reading:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/28/MN6C1KSGPC.DTL&ao=2\">PG&E missed opportunity to head off the disaster\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. knew in fall 2009 that an inspection crew had stumbled onto cracks and defective welds on the San Bruno gas transmission line near where the pipe ruptured at a similarly flawed weld 11 months later, but failed to check for such problems elsewhere on the line, company e-mails and documents reviewed by The Chronicle show.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/21/MN8Q1KIKM6.DTL\">PG&E knew of vulnerable welds in 2008, memo shows\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. knew in 2008 that the San Bruno gas line that later exploded and the network of smaller pipes it fed had multiple potentially at-risk welds, but decided to spike the system’s pressure so it could avoid the possibility of costly inspections, according to a company memo turned over to federal investigators.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Considering the challenges of the prolonged fire fueled by natural gas, the emergency response was well coordinated and effectively managed by local responders.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>If the grandfathering of older pipelines had not been permitted since 1961 by the California Public Utilities Commission and since 1970 by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Line 132 would have undergone a hydrostatic pressure test that would likely have exposed the defective pipe that led to this accident.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>There is no safety justification for the grandfather clause exempting pre-1970 pipelines from the requirement for postconstruction hydrostatic pressure testing.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The PG&E gas transmission integrity management program was deficient and ineffective.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The ineffective enforcement posture of the California Public Utilities Commission permitted PG&E’s organizational failures to continue over many years.\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe NTSB has concluded a nearly year-long investigation (final report should be \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2010/sanbruno_ca.html\">posted here\u003c/a> later) into the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, and PG&E is coming under a lot of fire from the panel presenting the results today. From NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman’s opening salvo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today you’re going to hear about flawed pipe, flawed operations, and flawed oversight. It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst, it was a question of when.” (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbopen.mp3\">Audio of that here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capitolconnection.net/capcon/ntsb/ntsb.htm\">\u003cstrong>Watch the NTSB hearing live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 10:48 a.m.\u003c/em> The Bay Citizen is \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">live-blogging\u003c/a> the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:45 a.m.\u003c/em> Here’s Hersman’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/news/speeches/hersman/daph110830o.html\">opening statement\u003c/a>, and it’s a dilly. For those looking for a federally sanctioned catharsis to their frustration and/or despair over San Bruno, this might provide a dose. Here’s Hersman’s closing slam of both PG&E and its state regular, the California Public Utilities Commission:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This accident represents a snapshot in time, and we recognize that individuals in the system work hard every day – at PG&E, CPUC, and PHMSA – to keep our pipelines safe. But good intentions did not prevent this accident from happening, Opportunities were missed that could have – and should have – prevented this tragedy. We acknowledge that in the intervening months since the accident, much has been learned and commitments to change have been made. But we’re here today to talk about what led to the rupture on September 9, 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear troubling revelations … about a company that exploited weaknesses in a lax system of oversight and government agencies that placed a blind trust in operators to the detriment of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know now that this tragedy began years ago with PG&E’s 1956 installation of a woefully inadequate pipe. It was compounded over the years by a litany of failures — including poor recordkeeping, inadequate inspection programs, and an integrity management program without integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first NTSB investigation involving PG&E. In August 1981, following a pipeline rupture in San Francisco, it took PG&E more than nine hours to shut down the gas flow. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier posts\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe Bay Citizen has a really good wrap-up of the NTSB findings in its \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>live blog\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> of today’s hearing: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>To recap, the five members of the National Transportation Safety Board voted unanimously that PG&E’s deficient pipeline management system – from the 1950s until the present time – was the “probable cause” of the Sept. 9, 2010 San Bruno pipeline disaster, which killed eight people. Deficient oversight by state and federal regulators were “contributing causes,” the board ruled. PG&E’s response to the disaster and its lack of emergency preparedness increased the severity of the accident, the board ruled…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other findings adopted unanimously by Board: San Bruno’s 2008 sewer project did not contribute to the accident; The pipeline didn’t meet 1950s standards; The pipeline fracture began along an deficient weld; PG&E lacked a comprehensive plan for responding to such a disaster; The 95 minutes that PG&E took to shut off the flow of gas to the rupture was exceessive; Local emergency workers and agencies coordinated their response to the disaster well; PG&E’s post-accident drug and alcohol testing program was inadequate; There is no basis to exempt old pipelines from modern inspection rules; PG&E’s gas transmission integrity program was deficient and ineffective; And the disaster was the result of an “organizational accident” – ie, there was no single cause of the accident, instead it was the culmination of systemic failures within PG&E.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">\u003cstrong>Read more here\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here’s a little taste of the kind of shellacking PG&E took today. After rattling off a welter of systemic problems delineated in the NTSB final report, board member Robert Sumwelt sounds incredulous when he asks one of the investigators on the panel, “how does an organization get to the point where they have all these deficiencies?” Listen below…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbsumwelt.mp3\">\u003cstrong>Audio: Board member Robert Sumwelt, bemused by sheer number of PG&E organizational deficiencies board found\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Here’s reporter Jaxon Vanderbeken summarizing some of what the paper discovered:\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cembed src=\"http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f8/823619053\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" flashvars=\"videoId=1134718001001&playerId=823619053&viewerSecureGatewayURL=https://console.brightcove.com/services/amfgateway&servicesURL=http://services.brightcove.com/services&cdnURL=http://admin.brightcove.com&domain=embed&autoStart=false&\" base=\"http://admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\">\u003c/embed>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are two recent reports by Van Derbeken worth reading:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/28/MN6C1KSGPC.DTL&ao=2\">PG&E missed opportunity to head off the disaster\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. knew in fall 2009 that an inspection crew had stumbled onto cracks and defective welds on the San Bruno gas transmission line near where the pipe ruptured at a similarly flawed weld 11 months later, but failed to check for such problems elsewhere on the line, company e-mails and documents reviewed by The Chronicle show.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/08/21/MN8Q1KIKM6.DTL\">PG&E knew of vulnerable welds in 2008, memo shows\u003c/a> (SF Chronicle)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Pacific Gas and Electric Co. knew in 2008 that the San Bruno gas line that later exploded and the network of smaller pipes it fed had multiple potentially at-risk welds, but decided to spike the system’s pressure so it could avoid the possibility of costly inspections, according to a company memo turned over to federal investigators.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Considering the challenges of the prolonged fire fueled by natural gas, the emergency response was well coordinated and effectively managed by local responders.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>If the grandfathering of older pipelines had not been permitted since 1961 by the California Public Utilities Commission and since 1970 by the U.S. Department of Transportation, Line 132 would have undergone a hydrostatic pressure test that would likely have exposed the defective pipe that led to this accident.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>There is no safety justification for the grandfather clause exempting pre-1970 pipelines from the requirement for postconstruction hydrostatic pressure testing.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The PG&E gas transmission integrity management program was deficient and ineffective.\n\u003c/li>\u003cli>The ineffective enforcement posture of the California Public Utilities Commission permitted PG&E’s organizational failures to continue over many years.\n\u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Earlier post\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nThe NTSB has concluded a nearly year-long investigation (final report should be \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/2010/sanbruno_ca.html\">posted here\u003c/a> later) into the San Bruno gas pipeline explosion, and PG&E is coming under a lot of fire from the panel presenting the results today. From NTSB Chair Deborah Hersman’s opening salvo:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today you’re going to hear about flawed pipe, flawed operations, and flawed oversight. It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst, it was a question of when.” (\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/ntsbopen.mp3\">Audio of that here\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.capitolconnection.net/capcon/ntsb/ntsb.htm\">\u003cstrong>Watch the NTSB hearing live\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 10:48 a.m.\u003c/em> The Bay Citizen is \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/blogs/pulse-of-the-bay/liveblog-feds-announce-causes-san-bruno/\">live-blogging\u003c/a> the hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update 8:45 a.m.\u003c/em> Here’s Hersman’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.ntsb.gov/news/speeches/hersman/daph110830o.html\">opening statement\u003c/a>, and it’s a dilly. For those looking for a federally sanctioned catharsis to their frustration and/or despair over San Bruno, this might provide a dose. Here’s Hersman’s closing slam of both PG&E and its state regular, the California Public Utilities Commission:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>This accident represents a snapshot in time, and we recognize that individuals in the system work hard every day – at PG&E, CPUC, and PHMSA – to keep our pipelines safe. But good intentions did not prevent this accident from happening, Opportunities were missed that could have – and should have – prevented this tragedy. We acknowledge that in the intervening months since the accident, much has been learned and commitments to change have been made. But we’re here today to talk about what led to the rupture on September 9, 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear troubling revelations … about a company that exploited weaknesses in a lax system of oversight and government agencies that placed a blind trust in operators to the detriment of public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We know now that this tragedy began years ago with PG&E’s 1956 installation of a woefully inadequate pipe. It was compounded over the years by a litany of failures — including poor recordkeeping, inadequate inspection programs, and an integrity management program without integrity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is not the first NTSB investigation involving PG&E. In August 1981, following a pipeline rupture in San Francisco, it took PG&E more than nine hours to shut down the gas flow. The NTSB found inadequate recordkeeping as a contributing cause in that event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in the investigation of a 2008 house explosion caused by PG&aamp;E’s gas distribution pipeline in Rancho Cordova, California, NTSB identified similar issues, including lack of quality control during pipe installation and inadequate emergency response procedures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, it’s Sept. 2010. Another explosion. Eight people killed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, you will hear about flawed pipe … flawed operations … flawed oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was not a question of if this pipeline would burst. It was a question of when.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, on KQED Radio’s Forum at 9 a.m., an hour-long discussion on the NTSB final report. \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/radio/listen/\">Listen live here\u003c/a>, or to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201108300900\">archived show\u003c/a> later in the day. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_38643\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 223px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/sanbrunozapata1SM.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-38643\" title=\"sanbrunozapata1SM\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/sanbrunozapata1SM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"223\" height=\"216\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike and Tammy Zapata\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>September 9 will mark the one-year anniversary of the San Bruno pipeline explosion and subsequent fire in which eight people were killed and 38 homes destroyed. Leading up to the anniversary, Amy Standen of KQED QUEST is interviewing survivors of the disaster. This is Part Two of the series; you can \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/29/san-bruno-stories-i-didnt-want-to-die-but-then-i-go-whatever-i-didnt-want-my-kids-to-die/\">listen to Part 1\u003c/a> here. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No matter how fast or how hard you tried to move, the house just kept sucking you back in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Zapata family were in their house on Earl Avenue when the explosion occurred. Their home was damaged but not destroyed. During the fire, Tammy and her daughter transported their neighbor, Joseph Ruigomez, to the hospital. He'd been watching the football game with his girlfriend, Jessica Morales, who died in the blaze. Ruigomez was badly injured but survived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/sanbrunostories2.mp3%7Ctitles=sanbrunostories2\">Audio: Tammy Zapata describes transporting a burnt neighbor to the hospital during the fire\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n[audio:http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2011/08/sanbrunostories2.mp3|titles=sanbrunostories2]\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Amanda was sitting here on the couch, watching TV. I was cooking, as usual. See how all those big trees are like that? No matter how high up you looked, all you could see was fire. You couldn’t see anything. My daughter was so freaked out that she couldn’t move. And Mike kept trying to get her out of the house, he actually picked her up and like tossed her. It wasn’t so much what you could see at that point, it was the noise. The noise was so loud, it was deafening. You couldn’t hear yourself, let alone anyone else. 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So every day that reminds you. Even if you think you’re going to forget it, you’re not. And the sound of all the construction; you know it’s people who’ve lost their homes and are rebuilding. But you can’t forget it. You’ll never forget it. You may learn to deal with it, but you’ll never forget the sounds, and the smells, and the rest. 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And then I decided, ‘it’s not going to happen.’ And it didn’t happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s our miracle from God. That’s the challenge you deal with: Your miracle is also someone else’s tragedy. There’s a lot of guilt that you live with; there’ s a lot of joy that you live with. Because of just surviving. Part of your kids’ innocence are lost.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">I just want someone to be held accountable of some stature.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Do I have faith that PGE will be punished or anyone will be punished? I don’t think so. Just because of the nature of the politics and how everyone is connected. If you look at what happened in the the collapse of 2008, no bankers have really been punished. And I just see the same thing happening now, where PG&E is probably going to pay a fine from some fund set aside to some insurance, and it’s going to be business as usual until the next thing happens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I just want someone to be held accountable of some stature. It’s not going to bring anyone’s lives back, but so we don’t have these things happening in the future.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>You can listen to Amy Standen’s \u003ca href=\"http://science.kqed.org/quest/audio/san-bruno-marks-a-somber-anniversary/\">QUEST report\u003c/a> on the investigation into the explosion below:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>All of our San Bruno Stories:\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/08/29/san-bruno-stories-i-didnt-want-to-die-but-then-i-go-whatever-i-didnt-want-my-kids-to-die/\">Part 1: ‘I didn’t want to die. 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