Five are missing; cadaver dogs get nine hits
Sunday, September 12, 2010
The number of fatalities could rise, however. Late Saturday night, the San Mateo County coroner's office was conducting tests on additional skeletal remains found at the blast site to determine whether they were human.
Search and rescue teams, joined by investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board, worked through the charred debris Saturday, looking for victims and clues to the cause of the pipeline blast that sent a fireball of blazing gas roaring through the hillside neighborhood.
NTSB investigators also are looking closely at a 2008 sewer replacement project that involved underground work at the site of the blast.
Authorities did not release the names of those residents unaccounted for, but The Chronicle learned that three members of a family - from one of the houses closest to the blast - were reported missing to police on Friday.
Greg Bullis, a 50-year-old nurse, his 16-year-old son, William, and his 82-year-old mother, Lavonne, were believed to be at 1690 Claremont Drive when the explosion occurred, according to Ashley Pogue, a family friend. They have not been heard from since. Greg Bullis' wife, Sue, also a nurse, was working in Sunnyvale at the time.
Deputy Coroner April Florent said cadaver dogs had nine hits at the site of the disaster, but warned they could be reacting to dead animals.
The San Mateo County coroner has identified three of the dead as Jacqueline Greig, 44, her daughter, Janessa Greig, 13, and Jessica Morales, 20, all of San Bruno. The coroner was still trying to identify the fourth person who died in the fire.
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