The staggering ‘rain of fire' that delayed L.A.'s destiny for 40 years [Los Angeles Times (CA)]
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Word spread quickly through my neighborhood that Sunday afternoon: Kids on their dirt bikes repeating “do you hear the explosion?” Concerned parents wondered whether it was time to load the station wagon and evacuate. It was March 24, 1985, and a terrifying blast rocked the Ross Dress for Less store across the street from Farmers Market. Walls crumbled. Windows shattered. Fireballs rose. As firefighters frantically treated the nearly two dozen wounded, open flames flared from cracks in the parking lot (a “rain of fire” as the L.A. Times described it). In the sleepy Fairfax District neighborhood where I grew up, this was a big deal. The culprit was methane gas from old oil fields that had accumulated underground, sparking short-lived worries that more explosions could happen at any time. There were no more blasts, but a politics of fear had taken hold. Stalling L.A.'s destiny The Ross Dress for Less fire profoundly altered L.A. urban planning for a generation. The disaster led
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