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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