From: jock@soccer.com

On Thu, 15 May 2014 13:05:09 +0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
 wrote:

>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.

And don't forget, at some stage, to relate that this was an
above-ground structure, not an underground, buried feeder.

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