“The fireball was above the trees”: Could the 1999 Bellingham pipeline explosion happen again?

“The fireball was above the trees”: Could the 1999 Bellingham pipeline explosion happen again? 

By Gabriel Spitzer & Shane Mehling, KNKX (Sep 30, 2017) – “On June 10, 1999, Bellingham residents began reporting the strong smell of gasoline. Then, within minutes, 911 operators were flooded with reports of a massive explosion.  A fuel pipeline had burst, dumping nearly 300,000 gallons of gasoline into nearby creeks.”