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To: ldo79 who wrote (46267)	6/11/1999 8:48:00 AM
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Bad News from Seattle - might want to skip... Gasoline leaking from pipeline explodes in deadly fireball Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) -- Thousands of gallons of gasoline leaked from a pipeline into a creek and somehow exploded in a massive fireball, killing one person, critically burning two young boys and blackening the skies over northwest Washington. "It looked like Mount St. Helens!" said Michele Higgins of the Whatcom County Division of Emergency Management. The fire spewed thick black smoke up to 30,000 feet in the air Thursday over the region 90 miles northwest of Seattle, she said. Its cause was not immediately known. A body was found late Thursday along Whatcom Creek, said Sheriff Dale Brandland, and at least two people were treated for smoke inhalation. The injured boys, Wade King and Stephen Tsiorvas, both 10, were flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle with second- and third-degree burns over 90 percent of their bodies, a nursing supervisor said today. They apparently jumped into the creek to stop the burning, said Stephen's 15-year-old brother, Andrew, and were found by friends. Tyrome Francisco, 16, said Stephen was still too hot to touch when they found him. The boys were so badly burned, Andrew Tsiorvas said, that he didn't know whether he should allow them to see each other. "Wade didn't want his mother to know," he said. "He said she'd be too sad and mad at him." Police and fire officials had responded to reports of a gasoline smell about 4:45 p.m. Thursday when they were rocked by the blast. The explosion sparked two house fires, destroying one of the homes. Olympic Pipe Line Co. spokeswoman Joann Hamick said the company estimated 277,200 gallons of gasoline leaked from its pipeline. The line had been shut down at 3:25 p.m. while the company investigated some computer errors. Employees tried to restart the line at 4:32 but found no pressure in the line, indicating a leak. A worker doing routine monitoring of the pipeline reported smelling gasoline a few minutes later. He called to report the explosion and fire and said he was running from the scene, Hamick said. The 400-mile pipeline carries gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from refineries in Whatcom and Skagit counties to Portland, Ore., largely along Interstate 5. Publication Date: June 11, 1999 Powered by NewsReal's IndustryWatch