Document DDQqeBaxQgbnoLNdgk8xRQg04
Daly City, CA (San Mateo Co.) Record : (Cir. 2xW. 23,025)
SEP 10 1983 !&>Xfc :
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>!fanMP a sPm ^B-CQntarni-' a | eve I considered safe for people, >";{ that if there had been a-shorter re-
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_,miner'aJ !'i'r9m a R!ownJ;Pa-[j she saitl,this would not have hap-,
ipP.f*c. Gas and Ela0i<: COi.electnq.al^ - Foster; however, said he was i." dbned," Mrs;; Foster said She also
through with that car, a 1970 Ford. rioted that PC&E people had told her I
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the electrical circuits to the trans- \
former would have been turned off
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and what she described as "arcing,
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, . appeared the car also needed to be ! popping and puffing" -could have
,,p.m. Tuesday after a 12,000-ki ovolt, cleaned in some hard-to-reach places ' j feriavoided.':^;^%^^^i;^v;^|
rt'tr^af'oruier.-ove ^'ec* andexploded : | tike the hood cowling and under 3: ifej)te transfbrfrier explosion^ though
jWvyith what a neighbor said was the i chrome strips where the PCB had ;; not terribly loud, "sounded about like
. . sound ofseveral large pieces of fire-;^ .,;: penetrated. He had bought the vehi,'-rv'^^M-80s (a type of fireworks) going
^ ^^-This incident would not ha^ap^p^f^
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loud of smoke completely enve-
the Sugrue home and partially
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--------ed the one next to it, she said.
| Jr. home at 1559 Linda Mar, the car Foster -stenhen's mother
4.,t St?PheP foster 1560 Linda Mar,^HMrs' FoJLsaici she called^pc^at^'^P^*-!<r^rneir ^id there fiad been
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g&iThere had been no'PCB intention-'
really added to the mineral oil in the *' transformer, Ms. Coffey said, but had t gotten into' the transformer when it fc Was built -when-the mineral oil was
padded through pipes which a|so had \ been used to add PCB to capacitors.
i'. "This procedure is no longer used,"
she said.
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