From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   For those of you on Usenet so enamored of the safety record of pipelines   
   for transportation of oil, you may not want to read about last night's   
   disaster:   
      
   A ruptured oil pipe near the suburb of Glendale has spilled about   
   10,000 gallons of crude oil onto streets; initial reports had the spill   
   at 50,000 gallons. The leak from a 20 inch pipe was reported as 12:15   
   am. Thursay, May 15, 2014. It was shut off remotely within 10 minutes of   
   firemen arriving. Despite the shut off, the spill continued for at least   
   45 minutes.   
      
   A strip club had to be evacuated.   
      
   The pipe was under pressure; oil was seen shooting 20 feet into the sky.   
      
   The oil came from Bakersfield. It's a pumping transfer station sending   
   oil to a storage facility near Bakersfield.   
      
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