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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 12:10 PM
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Explosion in San Francisco!
Just got off the phone with a friend.

We've had some sort of explosion at 120 Kearney Street. She was just about ready to cross the street to enter the building when the first floor exploded!

No news on what caused it yet. No news on injuries. Will keep folks posted.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 12:11 PM
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1. Charles Schwab & Co. is in that building.
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crispini Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 12:12 PM
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2. Good gad!
You're not kidding with us just cause it's in the Lounge, are you?
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 12:16 PM
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4. Not kidding...
it just happened a few minutes ago. Just got the first report on the news and they are just reporting an incident.
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Broken Acorn Donating Member (590 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 12:12 PM
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3. Really?
Keep us posted please.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 12:18 PM
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5. 1st report...
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/baycitynews/archive/2005/08/19/explosion19.DTL

Explosion in front of store in downtown S.F.
Bay City News

Friday, August 19, 2005


San Francisco -- The San Francisco Fire Department is sending crews over to a report of a blown-up manhole cover, a fire department dispatcher said.

The incident happened on Post and Kearny in front of the Ralph Lauren clothing store near the Crocker Galleria shopping center, the dispatcher said.

No other information is known at this time.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 12:19 PM
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6. Oh, sorry. Duped you in LBN.
Will link back here.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 12:29 PM
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7. Three to four blocks around the area..
are cordoned off. One reported inury so far. There's talk of some sort of possible transformer explosion.
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