2 dead in Texas Panhandle pipline explosion

On Tuesday last week a natural gas pipeline exploded and killed 2 construction workers in Texas. After being notified about the explosions, fire trucks from all over came to help. While the 5 construction people were working, their bulldozer struck the pipeline. Besides the 2 that died, 2 escaped without bad injuries, and the other was taken to a hospital in Oklahoma City. About 3 hours after the pipe exploded, there was a black patch of grass land. This patch was hundreds of feet in diameter. This is a huge environmental concern and a devastating event.

I keep hearing more and more about oil spills in the south. It's terrible that now people are dying from it. Also though, I think that the workers should have been extremely careful when working with their machinery. It was pretty much their own fault that the pipe exploded. While I do feel incredibly sorry for them, it's important to stress that it could have been avoided. We need to be careful while working with any dangerous substance like that. Now only will the families of those who died be affected, but the whole area will be too. The animals living there could die. Many plants could die too. We need to take care of our land as much as possible by finding ways to prevent and stop this from happening.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/08/texas.pipeline.explosion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_topstories+%28RSS%3A+Top+Stories%29