10,000 gallons of oil spill on Los Angeles streets

Crews sopped up the remains of about 10,000 gallons of crude oil that sprayed into Los Angeles streets and onto buildings early Thursday after a high-pressure pipe burst.

Fire Capt. Jaime Moore said a geyser of crude spewed 20 feet high over approximately half a mile at about 12:15 a.m. Oil was knee-high in some parts of the industrial area of Atwater Village before the line was remotely shut off.

Several commercial businesses near the border of Glendale were affected. A strip club was evacuated.

Moore said four people at a medical business were evaluated with respiratory complaints, and two people were transferred to a hospital.

By dawn, an environmental cleaning company had vacuumed up most of the oil.
The 20-inch pipe burst at a transfer pumping station along a pipeline that runs from Bakersfield to Texas.