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Original - 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion occurred at 6:11 p.m. PDT on September 9, 2010, in San Bruno, California.This caused a fire, which quickly engulfed nearby houses and cars. The numbers spray pained on the burned cars is an indication they were searched for the bodies.
Alternative 1
Reason
Good quality and good EV
Articles in which this image appears
2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion San Bruno, California
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/History/USA History
Creator
Mbz1
Okay I withdraw alternative. --Mbz1 (talk) 01:18, 5 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Changed. Thanks.--Mbz1 (talk) 14:38, 7 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose original: I do not find this suitably informative or representative enough of the scale of the event. The view is too narrow and the mess has been mostly cleaned up. A panorama would be more appropriate; this one says so much more, and I would like to see it in the explosion article. Unfortunately, for the sake of a less informative FP, it probably will never fit there. Maedin\talk 17:25, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]
I actually tried to put to the article the image you mention. It was repeatedly removed, and I gave up, but you are mistaken about clean up. Clean up was performed much later on. First they removed the cars, and then they removed the ruins. Before that they checked the soil for asbestos, and let the owners in to see, if they could find something valuable.--Mbz1 (talk) 17:53, 9 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Devastation in San Bruno.jpg --Makeemlighter (talk) 04:34, 10 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]