Chevron Purging Natural Gas Pipe Following Underground Fire in Northern California

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Chevron Corp. crews on Thursday were working to purge natural gas from a 12-inch diameter pipeline after a fire erupted in an underground gas storage area Wednesday night, forcing thousands to be evacuated from the East Bay near Oakland. An evacuation order remained in place Thursday afternoon for about 4,000 people from nearly 1,400 homes in the Bay Point and Pittsburg areas, which are about 30 miles northeast of Oakland, after the gas storage area caught fire near a pipeline in Bay Point, according to the Contra Costa County Fire Protection District (FPD). As of Thursday afternoon, there was no threat of an explosion and the impacted line had been isolated from other pipelines, officials said.