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Hydrogen leak evacuates California residents

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    Community questions safety after gas leak

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We first showed you the scene at 45 and oil from chopper to this morning firefighters and police fearing an explosion.

Evacuated every high school and businesses including Pixar residents startled awake about 730.

I -- big boom and then nines came out.

It's -- that it here going -- I was just thinking that I you Bay Area.

They shot this video went -- the.

Transit workers told us they saw flames leap from a 9000 gallons of pressurized hydrogen.

Used to fuel a -- AC transit buses testing fuel cell technology.

Once the system itself detected that it was having a problem -- Begin to shed itself down less dangerous than say your gas station would be under similar circumstances.

We showed you the -- official unveiling on a rainy day three weeks ago.

Part of a state mandated so called zero emission bus program.

When burn hydrogen fuel limits clean water but creating and compressing hydrogen requires electricity.

Overall hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are actually less efficient than say diesel hybrids.

Brian Donohue told me -- -- now nervous having hydrogen station in this neighborhood of course they tell us -- always -- them.

I think today sort of --