The family of twenty year-old, Jessica Morales, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Pacific Gas & Electric Co. after her untimely death on September 9, 2010. Morales and seven other victims were killed in the natural gas explosion accident that rocked the San Bruno community.
Around 6:00 p.m. on the night of September 9, 2010, a 30 inch gas line exploded in the residential community of San Bruno, California destroying homes and everything in its path. Reports estimate that over 50 people were injured after the pipeline exploded and some 37 homes were completely destroyed with dozens more damaged in one way or another.
Morales was visiting her boyfriend, Joseph Ruigomez, on the night of the explosion, when flames rushed into Ruigomez's house. Panicked, Morales tried to flee the burning house and ran towards a neighboring house. Ruigomez was severely burned in the explosion attempting to rescue her.
Morales' burned body was later discovered the next morning in a neighbor's shed.
The lawsuit alleges that the pipeline explosion could have been prevented and that PG& E had knowledge of the pipeline's defective condition. The lawsuit also points to the fact that Pacific Gas & Electric Co. failed to act on a long list of PG& E incidents and safety lapses.
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