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 ...
Sound and smell are my most vivid memories of the PEPCON explosion 30 years ago. On May 4, 1988, I was the Las Vegas bureau of one for the Reno Gazette Journal, and Howard Stutz was the gaming ...
The PEPCON plant in Henderson exploded into a hellish fireball just before noon on May 4, 1988. At the time, it was the worst non-nuclear disaster in American History. UFC 324 weigh-in results: ...
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 ...
A ruptured gas line wasn't enough to explain the 1988 disaster. The metal drums told the real story.