Firefighters poured water on flaming and smoldering wreckage early Friday after a massive explosion sent blazes roaring through a neighborhood in the hills south of San Francisco, killing at least one person, destroying more than 50 homes and damaging dozens of others.
Thursday night’s explosion shot a fireball more than 1,000 feet in the air and sent frightened residents fleeing for safety and rushing to get belongings out of burning homes, witnesses said.
[pagebreak]
Utility officials said a gas line ruptured in the vicinity of the blast, which left a giant crater and sent flames tearing across several suburban blocks in San Bruno just after 6 p.m.
Early Friday morning, the fire chief confirmed that the death toll had increased to at least six.
‘It’s going to take us until at least until tomorrow into the afternoon to do a full search,’ San Bruno Fire Chief Dennis Haag said late Thursday.
[pagebreak]
[pagebreak]
[pagebreak]
[pagebreak]
[pagebreak]
[pagebreak]
[pagebreak]
<img src='http://lh6.ggpht.com/_4ao7LxJIsgA/TIoqbTaWo-I/AAAAAAAADbM/DFlyI6zWVkM/s720/slide_10433_137501_huge.jpg' alt='san
