The National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB) is looking for the reason why a PG&E main gas pipe ruptured and exploded into a fireball. This we do know: the pipeline was a main gas line owned by PG&E.
Reports suggest the reason it took so long to get the gas turned-off and stop the fireball was because PG&E had to dispatch a work crew -- in commute-time traffic -- to take a key and go to a remote site secured by a chain-link fence and manually turn-off the gas flow.
The time it took PG&E to do all that meant millions more in loss and may have resulted in some of the deaths reported.
So ... PG&E is doing their best to shove their damn Smart Meters down our throats ... why can't they invest some of the same time and money to install Smart Shut-Off Systems for their major pipe lines? If they had been able to flick a switch and shut-off the gas flow, some people in San Bruno may still be alive today.
If lives, safety and citizen's rights were held in as high esteem by PG&E as their corporate profits, some of those people may be alive today.
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