article_snippet.sent: A large gas pipeline exploded into a tower of fire on Friday in Central California, closing both directions of a major highway and injuring at least 15 people, four of them critically, authorities said.
article_snippet.sent: A fireball erupts after a large gas pipeline exploded in Fresno, Central California, on Friday.
article_snippet.sent: Pacific Gas & Electric crews are seen in the distance along the Fresno road after The explosion at the Fresno County Sherrif's gun range .
article_snippet.sent: A nearby rail line was also halted out of concern that a passing train could spark leaking gas.
article_snippet.sent: Emergency respondents gather near the scene of a gas line rupture.
article_snippet.sent: The 12-inch diameter pipeline involved in the fire belongs to PG&E, Pete Martinez of the Fresno Fire Department said.
article_snippet.sent: PG&E spokesman Denny Boyles said The 12-inch diameter pipeline involved in the fire was damaged by a vehicle and that the line was buried but PG&E spokesman Denny Boyles didn't know how deeply.
article_snippet.sent: The flame from the pipe was extinguished at about an hour and a half after the gas-line explosion, PG&E spokesman Denny Boyles said.
article_snippet.sent: PG&E's natural-gas operations have been under scrutiny following a fiery 2010 PG&E pipeline blast that killed eight people in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno.
article_snippet.sent: National Transportation Safety Board investigators blamed faulty safety practices by PG&E, and lax oversight by state regulators, for a fiery 2010 PG&E pipeline blast that killed eight people in the San Francisco suburb of San Bruno.
article_snippet.sent: Earlier this month, state regulators leveled a fiery 2010 PG&E pipeline blast that killed eight people in the San Francisco suburb of San Brunoa fiery 2010 PG&E pipeline blast that killed eight people in the San Francisco suburb of San BrunoSan Bruno .
article_snippet.sent: The 12-inch diameter pipeline involved in the fire belongs to PG&E, Pete Martinez of the Fresno Fire Department, said .
highlights_snippet.sent: The explosion at the Fresno County Sherrif's gun range happened on a Pacific Gas & Electric Co pipe carrying natural gas .
  