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The Humberto Vidal explosion (sometimes also referred to as the Río Piedras explosion) was a gas explosion that occurred on November 21, 1996 at the Humberto Vidal shoe store in Río Piedras, Puerto Rico. The explosion killed 33 and wounded 69 others when the building collapsed. [2] It is one of the deadliest disasters to have occurred on the ...
Caribbean Gulf Petroleum Explosion from Baldrich, Hato Rey. Puerto Rico Governor Luis Fortuño declared a state of emergency, and activated the Puerto Rico National Guard to support firefighters and aid the injured. Also, schools in the San Juan Metro Area were cancelled for the day, some schools near the explosion area were closed until 4 days ...
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4. Puerto Rico power outage. Power has been restored to nearly all of Puerto Rico after a massive outage on New Year’s Eve left much of the island in the dark. About 1.4 million users, or at ...
Caribbean Petroleum Corporation (CAPECO) is an oil company in Puerto Rico which owned an oil refinery in Bayamón having a capacity of 48 thousand barrels per day (7.6 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d). In addition, it operated more than 200 service stations in Puerto Rico under the Gulf brand name.
Puerto Rico's power company said it began working to restore power to the island early in the morning. By 10:30 p.m. local time, Luma Energy, the power company that supplies the territory, said it ...
Puerto Rico's main airport, ... 49, who said she ate breakfast before work thanks to a small gas stove she bought for such events, told the Associated Press. Raúl Pacheco, a 63-year-old diabetic ...
January 30 – An 8-inch refined petroleum products pipeline, owned by The Pipelines of Puerto Rico, Inc., was struck and ruptured by a bulldozer, during maintenance work on a nearby waterline, in the Sector Cana of Bayamon, Puerto Rico, about 10 miles (16 km) southwest of San Juan. Gasoline from the rupture sprayed downhill, and ran off into a ...