Twenty-eight years ago, the Las Vegas Valley experienced one of the largest explosions in history — PEPCON. A fire started inside a building at Pacific Engineering and Production Corporation of Nevada ...

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 ...

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, Nev. (FOX5) - The morning of May 4, 1988 was 75 degrees, overcast and breezy. Seven explosions would rock the Las Vegas Valley emanating from what is believed to be a welder’s torch inside ...

In May 1988, a small fire at a chemical plant near Las Vegas triggered one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in U.S.

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, ...

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. Trump turns up heat on Fed ahead ...

It's been 30 years since a series of explosions rocked the Las Vegas valley. Contact 13 Investigative Reporter Joe Bartels caught up with those who were there that day. I found fame as an ’80s rock ...