PG&E clean-up of last Friday’s Tenderloin blast continues. A local emailed me these pictures of the removal of drums labeled 
“Oily water with PCB” — aka toxic waste. He also writes: ” Use of this extremely toxic chemical was used to prevent oil from breaking down but had been outlawed since 1978. My guess is massive amounts of this substance burning up into columns of smoke is what caused the “shelter” advisory on Friday.”
On Monday, officials with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District said air samples taken during the blaze found that the smoke contained mainly hydrocarbons from the burning mineral oil inside the vault.
“It’s more or less what we expected,” said Lisa Fasano, a district spokeswoman.
She said the small particles in the smoke are eye and throat irritants but pose no long-term hazard. Winds that day helped disperse the smoke quickly, limiting the effects. [SFGate 6/9/09]
The SFGate article mentions [that] the strippers have returned to the corner of Polk and O’Farrell, but nothing about the barrels of PCB.
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