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round 3 a.m. was an earthquake,
urricane or airplane crash. One fire
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sure don’t want to go there. ”
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irlifted to Houston hospitals by
S. Coast Guard helicopters. Sev-
ralwere reported in critical condi
tion.
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railer resident Eugene Dolan, 29.
The doors on my trailer were be-
[inning to melt as we ran out. I fear
We lost everything.”
Across a pasture from the trailer
lark, Mr. and Mrs. G.C. Atkins
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tight sky.
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red. Everything as was bright as
sunlight. There were people coming
from everywhere.”
Atkins said he heard “a big hiss
and then the explosion.”
“The flames went up 200-300 feet
in the air. I saw 15 or so people run
ning right off,” he saud. “That heat
was so hot I couldn’t get in down
there (at the trailer park). I started
walking down the road. It lit up like
daylight. It was so damn hot it was
pitiful.”
A man with two small children
raced past him, he said, and he
noticed all three had blistered
backs.
“They were in shock. It was pret
ty rough. I’ve seen a lot of kids
burned. The fire chief had an asbes
tos fire suit and he couldn’t take
it(the heat).”
Firefighters said the blast crater
looked like a plowed field and a part
of the trailer park had been reduced
to white ashes. The blast destroyed
more than 20 cars and leveled ev
erything within 100 yards.
“We were the first ones in,” said
David Armelli, a volunteer firefigh
ter from Brazoria County. “I have
seen pipeline explosions before, but
not where people get killed. It
really is a tragedy to lose lives like
this.”
Armelli said the explosion was so
intense, some victims died in
stantly.
The pilot of the plane bringing
the Houston Oilers back from
Monday night’s game at Pittsburgh,
said flames were visible 200 miles
from Houston Intercontinental Air
port.
Two valves on the pipeline were
capped and the fires were extin
guished at 5:45 a.m. An employee of
United Texas Gas Pipeline Co., said
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United Press Internationa]
A natural gas pipeline explosion Tuesday that killed at least five and
injured more than 40 others at suburban Brookside Village was the
second residential pipeline accident locally in the last nine years.
A similar pipeline explosion in September 1969 destroyed 15
homes and injured 10 people in the Greenridge North subdivision six
miles north of Houston.
In other incidents involving lines that underlace Houston, 2,000
persons were evacuated from Greenridge North in 1977 after a liquid
in a ditch caught fire and seven persons were hurt in a pipe blast at
Shell's Deer Park refinery.
There have been other, smaller incidents, such as a blast that
destroyed a cafe last November. Rupture of a gas line near the cafe
was blamed on road crews working nearby.
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