Thirty-three years ago on May 4, 1988, the Las Vegas valley was rocked by three massive explosions (and several smaller ones). A fire that started inside a building at Pacific Engineering and ...
LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Thirty-four years ago Wednesday, there was a huge explosion in the valley. Anyone who lived here could tell you about PEPCON. A St. Rose Dominican Hospital worker was a caregiver ...
The Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada, known as PEPCON, was destroyed 38 years ago in a series of explosions after ammonium perchlorate, an oxidizer used in rocket fuel, caught fire ...
LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - If you lived in the Las Vegas Valley in 1988, you remember it well. The deadly PEPCON disaster rocked the valley 34 years ago. “There were seven explosions all together. The ...
HENDERSON, Nev. — The PEPCON disaster was considered one of America’s more devastating plant explosions to follow World War II. It happened at a plant located near Gibson Road and American Pacific ...
Richard Brenner, the Clark County Fire Department HazMat Coordinator, speaks with the media after about 100 people were treated for breathing difficulties following a chlorine leak Friday, Aug. 27, ...