El Segundo Fire

Originally, the company was charged 1.3 million dollars for causing this spill. This means that the company had paid most of their profit into cleaning up oil from a pond. But at the same time most of the people around them had experienced things that they have not experienced before, also since this had occurred the company had gotten a lot of hate and bad reviews because of this oil spill so many of the people working there are known as a bad company. Plains Midstream company may have also experienced a lot of financial problems because they had to pay a lot to clean all of this up. This company also must have lost a lot of there money because now they cannot invest a lot of money into this specific area since this spill had occurred. Also this company had caused a lot of other types of spills in Canada and one of the biggest one is Little Buffalo oil spill. This company is already down a lot of there money because they had to repair a lot of different pipes in a lot of different areas, so there in a lot of

In the early hours of August 17, 1975, a tragic disaster occurred on the Gulf Oil refinery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This horrific disaster took the lives of eight firefighters, and potentially could have taken more lives if it wasn’t for the help of many surrounding fire stations. The cause of the fire was the overfilling of Tank 231. While no crude oil escaped from the tank as a result of being overfilled, large quantities of hydrocarbon vapors were trapped above the surface of the tank’s crude oil. As the quantity of crude oil increased, these hydrocarbon vapors were forced out of the tank’s vents and into the area of the No.4 Boiler House where the initial flash occurred. The overfilling of the tank

“During the early 1900’s the discovery of oil and natural gas in areas around Baton Rouge attracted chemical companies to the city” (Reilly). Since the beginning of the 1900’s Louisiana has been a large refining state, one may say one of the best, but also one of the most damaging. It can be safely said that since the start of refining in Louisiana well over a billion pounds of pollution has been released. In 2011 alone over a million pounds of chemicals were released into the air and a separate 1.3 million had been released into the water. All of Louisiana’s 17 refineries reported accidents contributing to these chemical spills (Sturgis). The numbers that have been presented so far may not seem out of the ordinary

Michael can throw as hard, maybe harder, then any other 12 year old alive. His fastballs being clocked at eighty miles-per-hour. You would think the worst was behind when his dad, brother, and he immigrated from Cuba, but I don't think anyone can predict what is in store for Michael Arroyo. They live in the Bronx and Michael is a huge Yankee fan; especially his idol, Cuban-born pitcher El Grande. Michael lost his mother to cancer back in Cuba at a young age, and his father died of a heart attack a few months after coming to America leaving his seventeen year-old brother Carlos and him living on there own.

The most prominent geologic feature of the upper Texas coast is the Galveston Bay, covering to the extent of within 600 square miles, it's one of the most urbanized and industrialized areas. Just like any other chill evening in the Galveston Bay, TX everything was calm as air, but on March 22, 2014 after a dramatic collision between a ship and an oil barge. Opproximatley more than 150,000 gallons of fuel oil so heavy it wont evaporate as easy and it'll also be difficult to clean up. It quickly leaked into the Houston Ship Channel, and started to expand on / upon nearby marshes. This chaotic spill unleashed, as much as 168,000 gallons of bunker fuel, a thick, cheap fuel that powers big ships. In the past their has / had been many calls to ban banker fuel. Furthermore, within days of the spill, the disperse of the bunker fuel was evident. Oil was detected not too far in the Gulf of Mexico 12 miles offshore on a crisp Sunday, March 23, and

On Monday October 31st, 2016, a pipeline exploded and shutdown the flow of gasoline and diesel on the East Coast which could effect pump prices for a couple of weeks. The explosion took place near the site of a gas spill that happened back in September that caused supply shortages and also an increase of prices in the Southeast. The Colonial Pipeline was forced to shutdown both of their mainlines. The New York Harbor’s gasoline soared from anywhere from 15% up to $1.64 a gallon. A little before 3 pm, the explosion occurred. Gasoline was lit and set off a huge fire that was not controlled and it continued to burn for almost the rest of the evening. Anyone who drives should expect price increases. The fire and emergency persons allowed the fire

When the first fire truck arrived, they found the fire at the enclosed docking station that connected the showroom and the warehouse. After the first arrival, the SFO entered through the main entrance of the showroom and found no signs of a fire or smoke. He continued with his search and found a door to the loading dock. Within minutes of the SFO opening the door to the loading dock, the fire spread into three areas, the main showroom, the right showroom addition, and into the warehouse. The fire spread so quickly that the firefighters became disoriented. There were huge amount of toxic fumes and flammable gases because of all the burning furniture that was in both buildings. The toxic fumes from the furniture caused a very black thick smoke and the flammable toxins caused the fire to spread rapidly. The smoke was all over from the ceiling to the floor of the building. This is when the smoke and the fire made the nine firemen to get disoriented and was one of the causes for their unfortunate fate. There were another nine first responders that escaped seriously injured from the

Los Angeles’ El Gallo Grill serves sumptuous and authentic Mexican cuisine made with fresh and vibrant ingredients in its inviting and rustic restaurant. For a superb start to your meal, enjoy the chunky guacamole fresco and creamy queso fundido melted cheese dip topped with chorizo sausage, both served with tortilla chips. Some of El Gallo Grill’s specialty entrées include the gallito de carne asada steak stuffed with ham, cheese, tomatoes and onion, the firewood roasted tiger shrimp brochete and the smoky adobada tacos. El Gallo Grill is not the typical Mexican joint. Here, the chef’s pride themselves on serving vibrant and fresh cuisine, not the typical greasy plates served at many others.

Just after midnight on May 4, 2009, flammable vapor from the process leaked and ignited causing an explosion that severely injured two employees. Subsequent explosions damaged the site and nearby residences and businesses. It took over ten hours to subdue the flames.

The Ventura County fire department is reporting that 700 barrels of crude oil, approximately 29,000 gallons, were spilled from a pipeline in southern California. At 5:30 A.M. PST the leak was spotted, flowing towards a beach nearby. The Los Angeles times reports that officials are relying on a natural catch basin, that exists in the area, to capture the oil while crews work on building bigger barriers.

On April 20, 2010 there was an explosion in a drilling rig that was operated and owned by Transocean. The drilling rig’s official name was “Deepwater Horizon Mobile Offshore Drilling Unit” and was in the process of drilling oil in the Macondo Propect oil field, located 40 miles off the Louisiana southeast coast. The cause was reported as a “Wellhead blowout” which cause the rig to explode, dumping more than 200 gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico and resulting in 11 casualties.

It was estimated by Exxon that 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) of Wabasca heavy crude was spilled from the breach (Koon and Peacock 2013). Due to elevated Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) readings and due to the amount of oil present on the ground and in the street, 22 homes were evacuated. The heavy crude oil released made its way down a residential road, into a bar ditch, into an unnamed creek, and then into a stream to a cove of Lake Conway (Schwirtz 2012). Figure 1 and 2 are pictures of some of the affected areas and spillage into residential property.

Significantly, one contributing factor was the diversion of the aircraft to Los Rodeos. This was caused by an explosion of the first bomb at its original destination, Gran Canaria Airport, at 13:15pm where it was then followed by a claim of a second bomb [2, pp. 572]. The civil authorities were then forced to shut the airport down temporarily, which diverted all the incoming flights, including two Boeing 747 aircraft to the Los Rodeos airport. However, the Los Rodeos airport was small to accommodate all as it had only one airstrip [2, pp. 572]. The authorities then reopened that airport after the threat had been contained at Gran Canaria.

In the Mexican movie, Los olvidados, (1950) the director Luis Buñuel highlights the shortcomings of Porfirio Díaz. In particular, it showed his failing to provide the needs of the lower-class population comprised of the indigenous groups and peasant farmers. Intent on calming the imminent and pending revolution through economically disabling its active lower-class population, “economic growth under Díaz had a cost … became angry enough to attack the system,” fight and commit petty crimes like theft (Skidmore et al. 227-232). Luis Buñuel, through Los olvidados, tells a story of some children: (Pedro (Alfonso Mejía), Ojitos (Mario Herrera), Jaibo (Roberto

On April 28th, 2010 cleanup crews were rushing to clean up a huge oil spill on the Gulf of Mexico. This spill occurred because of an oil rig explosion that took place on April 20th. The oil spill was threatening miles of coast line in four different states, and not to mention marine wild life that live in those waters. This oil spill soon became the worst oil spill the United States had ever seen. There were 126 workers on board the oil rig when it exploded, most of the workers escaped, but eleven were missing but then confirmed dead. The cause of the explosion is being investigated. Since the explosion, experts estimated a total of 210,000 gallons of oil were spilling into the gulf. Experts are also worried about the sea life and how