By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

Reposted to Protect My Sons

UC Berkeley: Explosion and power outage was the second in a month, third this year

By Doug Oakley and Rick Hurd Oakland Tribune

POSTED:   10/01/2013 07:07:54 AM PDT | UPDATED:   38 MIN. AGO

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Crews assess the scene of an electrical fire at UC Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. The Monday evening fire caused an extensive power outage with many buildings still closed on Tuesday. (Kristopher Skinner/Bay Area News Group)

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• UC Berkeley explosion, power outage may be related to copper theft, officials say

BERKELEY -- Officials on Tuesday were investigating a power outage followed by an explosion and three-story fireball on Monday at UC Berkeley that sent one student to the hospital with minor burns -- the second explosion and power outage on campus in a little over two weeks and the third this year.

A previous explosion Sept. 12 in a high-voltage underground vault caused a three-hour power outage to six buildings. On Feb. 14 there was an explosion at a substation followed by a power outage, said Christine Shaff, spokeswoman for the campus facilities department. No injuries were reported in those two explosions, Shaff said.

On Tuesday, 11 buildings remained without power and 113 classes were canceled, according

A trio of fire trucks drives through Sproul Plaza at UC Berkeley after an explosion and fire in an underground utility vault caused a power outage and forced the evacuation of the campus on Sept. 30, 2013. (D. Ross Cameron/Staff)

to campus spokesman Dan Mogulof. He said "it is not clear" whether the canceled classes will resume Wednesday. About 20 people were stuck in elevators on campus Monday and were rescued by Berkeley fire crews.

Mogulof said the university hoped to have power restored to California Hall, Dwinelle Hall, the Bancroft and Doe libraries and one or two other buildings by Wednesday.

Mogulof said the power outage was caused by the theft of copper grounding wire stolen from an underground area accessible by a manhole cover at the university last week. Workers thought they had the damage repaired on Sunday, but the damage was more extensive than thought and caused Monday's power outage, Mogulof said. He did not know if all three explosions this year were due to copper wire thefts.

"The fact that they were able to locate the manhole cover and apply the sort of pressure they did to the wires leads us to believe this was a sophisticated operation and not a bunch of teenagers doing some sort of vandalism," Mogulof said.

Officials are not sure if the explosion and fireball were related to the power outage and it's not known exactly how much copper wire was taken, Mogulof said.

"We're in a new world where people are stealing copper out of the university power system, so we have to adapt," Mogulof said.

Shaff said she was walking near California Hall on campus on Monday when she heard the explosion and saw the fireball, which was right next to the chancellor's office.

"It looked like something right out of a movie," Shaff said. "Then the fire continued underground. There was a fire truck right next to it that was on campus to monitor the power outage."

Asked why the campus has experienced two explosions and power outages in a little over two weeks, Shaff said the power system on campus is old and the university is doing its best to upgrade it as fast as it can.

The 11 buildings that remained without power on Tuesday included Haas Pavilion, the Bancroft and Doe libraries, Alumni House, California Hall, the Central Heating Plant, Durant Hall, Dwinelle Hall, Dwinelle Annex, Edwards Track and the Environmental Health and Safety Building.

The outage was first reported Monday around 4:45 p.m. and the explosion, in an electrical vault outside California Hall in the heart of campus, occurred around 6:30 p.m.

Campus officials worked through the night and early morning to restore power to all but the 11 buildings. Generators provided power to off-campus residential halls.

Four people suffered minor burns. Three were treated and released without visiting a hospital. The one person hospitalized for burns was released, Mogulof said.

Those stuck in the elevators were freed by 8:30 p.m., officials said.

Students were advised to check with their academic departments for more information about rescheduling of classes or events, and employees working in the affected buildings still without power were asked to check with their supervisor about reporting to work.

Staff writers Erin Ivie and David DeBolt contributed to this story.

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Lafayette Chief of Police Chief Huber - Documentation

 Blinded by the Cop

Lafayette CA: In my article "Blinded by the cop" I outline the July 20th 2011, hit and run accident that today lacks a police report.  The two year anniversary has arrived with no recovery, only losses and more deaths in my article "The Dead Seeno List" where I've chronicled accidents, murders and incidents spanning 30 years. 
Below is the first of several letters sent to Lafayette Police which should serve as adequate notice that someone tried to take my life but the response never arrived.  

It's your tax dollars not mine. 
Lafayette Letter Number One 

I informed a police agency that a recent hit and run accident occurred at the intersection Deer Valley Road and First Ave via the email titled "Hit and Run Accident Report Linked to Corruption Probe" 
Please note that Hubbard is gone but dude - the county IT department can prove you're lying and you're obstructing justice, committing perjury, deflecting an attempted murder case and unfortunately have inserted yourself into a much bigger story.
The PG&E Gas Pipeline Explosion in San Bruno 
This accident which was a close call forced me to dig up data leading me to Alamo Mormons which is connected to the death of one very good drummer that showed up and played for me. He's the son of a powerful attorney representing Contra Costa County, a prick named Al, and sues Chevron but his brother in-law represented me in my divorce court but failed to reveal ex-wife has been part of the Greenan Family for since the early 80s.  

James Greenan's law firm obviously curry's favor with County Counsel, the DA and the Greenan influence is evident with the Contra Costa Narcotics Enforcement Taskforce (CNET)
Rule 3-310 Avoiding the Representation of Adverse Interests

  This accident was intended to eliminate me which someone tried to do on my return trip from PG&E offices in Modesto.  PG&E doesn't seem to get the bigger picture but their pipeline data was breached on my laptop when I was arrested in what I call the perfectly choreographed fall guy. 




Dax, when you get a chance please read these pages: 
http://rules.calbar.ca.gov/Rules/RulesofProfessionalConduct/CurrentRules/Rule3310.aspx
This would include Judge Golub who saddled me with 12,000 in fines.  
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=bpc&group=06001-07000&file=6035-6038

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By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

Reposted to Protect My Sons
Arson Murder - Magalia / Paradise CA
Related: Arson / Arson
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5:30 p.m. Update: Man dies in Magalia fire

By Rick SilvaManaging Editor

Posted:   06/12/2013 10:58:01 AM PDT

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A member of the Butte County Crime Scene investigation unit carries a bag... (Rick Silva/The Post)

The Butte County Sherriff's office and Butte County Fire Investigation Team are investigating a fatal fire that at a single wide mobile home on Drexel Road in Magalia.

The fire, which authorities say was the second one at the home in two weeks, occurred at 2:47 a.m. and began in the back bedroom.

The name of the man who died is being withheld until deputies can get a positive identification, though Sgt. Jason Hail said they believe that they know the name of the victim.

Firefighters were called after a neighbor Marion Prevatt, 40, was awakened by his growling dog as if someone was in his yard.

But when Prevatt looked outside, he saw the mobile directly across the street from his emanating smoke and ran across the street to help his neighbor.

“About the time I got there to the front door, there

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as like an explosion,” he said. “Something went boom and fire just came out the window and of everything else.”

Despite the fire and the explosion, Prevatt said he still tried getting to his neighbor.

“I got to the ice box near his back room,” he said. “But it got so hot that I started to choke out. I went in three different times … I barely made it out myself.”

Prevatt said he tried yelling for the man to come out and went down to his knees at one point. He said the man never responded to his calls and never yelled for help of any kind.

“I hollered his name but he never responded,” he said.  

Prevatt said the man usually sleeps on the couch and when he entered the house, he noticed the man wasn't there.

“I've never seen him go back there,” he said. “I knew something was wrong when I could find him.”

That is when he made his way to the back of the house, but was overcome with smoke and heat.

“It was so hot, I could see the orange glowing under the door,” he said. “I tried everything I could do to bring the guy out. I just couldn't do it.”

He said the man was a frequent visitor to his home and traded movies with him.

“He was kind of like my father,” he said. “But then my father passed away. He was kind of a role model.

CAL Fire Capt. Joe Tapia said the fire is still under investigation and says it could a month to get finish the investigation.

Tapia said last week's fire at the home and Wednesday morning's fire were both being investigated but would not deem them suspicious.

Hail said that deputies were there for a very in-depth coroner's report and that they are waiting an autopsy to determine cause of death.

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Update: Man dies in Magalia fire

By PETE BENNETT - Contra Costa Watch EMAIL
Phone: 510-460-5641
Posted: 06/13/2013

Reposted to Protect My Sons
Arson Murder - Magalia / Paradise CA
Related: Arson / Arson
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UPDATE June 23 2013 - I posted these articles as they were extremely close to my sons residence.  Given that I was cut off from them andd given the number of incidents in Contra Costa that are arson - that was enough for me - 

5:30 p.m. Update: Man dies in Magalia fire

By Rick SilvaManaging Editor

Posted:   06/12/2013 10:58:01 AM PDT

The Butte County Sherriff's office and Butte County Fire Investigation Team are investigating a fatal fire that at a single wide mobile home on Drexel Road in Magalia.

The fire, which authorities say was the second one at the home in two weeks, occurred at 2:47 a.m. and began in the back bedroom.

The name of the man who died is being withheld until deputies can get a positive identification, though Sgt. Jason Hail said they believe that they know the name of the victim.

Firefighters were called after a neighbor Marion Prevatt, 40, was awakened by his growling dog as if someone was in his yard.

But when Prevatt looked outside, he saw the mobile directly across the street from his emanating smoke and ran across the street to help his neighbor.

“About the time I got there to the front door, there

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as like an explosion,” he said. “Something went boom and fire just came out the window and of everything else.”

Despite the fire and the explosion, Prevatt said he still tried getting to his neighbor.

“I got to the ice box near his back room,” he said. “But it got so hot that I started to choke out. I went in three different times … I barely made it out myself.”

Prevatt said he tried yelling for the man to come out and went down to his knees at one point. He said the man never responded to his calls and never yelled for help of any kind.

“I hollered his name but he never responded,” he said.  

Prevatt said the man usually sleeps on the couch and when he entered the house, he noticed the man wasn't there.

“I've never seen him go back there,” he said. “I knew something was wrong when I could find him.”

That is when he made his way to the back of the house, but was overcome with smoke and heat.

“It was so hot, I could see the orange glowing under the door,” he said. “I tried everything I could do to bring the guy out. I just couldn't do it.”

He said the man was a frequent visitor to his home and traded movies with him.

“He was kind of like my father,” he said. “But then my father passed away. He was kind of a role model.

CAL Fire Capt. Joe Tapia said the fire is still under investigation and says it could a month to get finish the investigation.

Tapia said last week's fire at the home and Wednesday morning's fire were both being investigated but would not deem them suspicious.

Hail said that deputies were there for a very in-depth coroner's report and that they are waiting an autopsy to determine cause of death.

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Trust Documents and Walnut Creek PD

She was murdered to cover-up to real truth about the 2004 Pipeline explosion 

The Problem: The Documents used to transfer property was forged
The Forgery Problem: Officer Rabinowitz like many other times has refused to open a case

The Attorney: Said it was my money
The Executor: Alex Bennett Salt Lake City UT - given my setbacks finding him was challenge

This trust document was prepared by an attorney that told me if my brother won't pay up then I'll have to sue which really ticked me off was this document was supposed to solve that .

Given the current history with the Walnut Creek Police Department they won't investigate stalking, a hit and run attempt, a breach of data linked to PGE Databases why would they bother with forgery

The Contra Costa Bar won't assist with an attorney - they told me no one was interested
My theory is the Bar is controlled by the Barrister's who slice up cases to suit their needs.  I've called enough times and been sent on waste of time referrals. One day I realized one attorney was fishing for details on the Danville case that would have netted a large award.

By the way all the going public might seem like a bad move but this sheds light on the Contra Costa Bar, The courts could be truly broken as as in 1992 I was burned by a law firm where the Senior Partner attorney who yanked the case from his associate attorney, settled for about 400K short and basically burned my case for their fees. The judge was siding with my attorney at hearing and pretty much lied through the hearing, he was adverse with me and painting his own client in a negative way.  I understand that I could remove counsel but weeks from Trial?

I've heard enough probate stories where they over for various reasons and bleed the estate down with the pretense of protecting the estate.  File a lien of the property could be done for less than $500 but one firm took out a $250,000 loan then started taking their fees. The let the daughter stay but actually told he she couldn't have guests or overnights.

This trust was a rip-off by brother and its reasonable to say that our trust attorney did a poor job.

Dorothea Leslie Milne Trust - Contra Costa County Bar can't find an attorney by

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PGE ► San Bruno Fire - An Alternate Theory Leading To Another Fire

PG&E: San Bruno Fire - An Alternate Theory Leading To Another Fire  

Date: January 22nd 2013 Author: Pete Bennett
Reference Link: Suspected and Known Arson Fires 

Pleasant Hill CA:  Shortly after the San Bruno Fire in 2011 a PGE high performance engineer was sitting a desk across from me at my web start-up located at 1923a Oak Park Blvd, Pleasant Hill CA requesting a nearly useless database project.  This person was nice enough but under extreme duress, lacked focus but also highly agitated when former Lt. David Oberhoffer appeared shortly after he arrived but he never seemed interested in his project.  

A deposit was presented to build a skeleton database for his ongoing litigation which sounded like extortion by a former employee who teamed up with an attorney.  What wasn't known then was he worked for PGE but the nearly impossible coincidence was the San Bruno Fire was 

Sept 2010 a few days after the San Bruno Fire  A PGE High Performance Engineer order a database solution for his litigation support needs.  My best guess was this was perhaps a few bankers boxes but in retrospect he didn't need the database and was there about former San Francisco Police Officer David Oberhoffer who retired in June 2010.  My problem with Oberhoffer is his connection to the Piedmont Lumber Fire and his connection to persons that I know have tried to run me off the road.  

he paid a deposit but never returned calls but that afternoon Oberhoffer arrived and this guy appeared to be scared to death of him.  

By February 2011 a company called Ravenelle Enterprises calls from Fresno saying they "found" my resume on Craigslist. They said they wanted to hire me but given I was homeless, broke, and barely surviving I said yes, sure, no problem, when do you want to start but knowing that I was sleeping in the rain it was going to be tough road.  

My problem was getting clothes and getting around.  Then my phone goes off but Ravenelle apparently undeflected by my problems makes contact again after the phone was off for three weeks.  We meet in Walnut Creek and this VP presents my resume that was posted back fall 2010.  

I get hired, Ravenelle sells me a car, gets me traveling to Newman, Modesto, Concord, and PGE Offices on Wiget Lane

I've spent several years piecing together job histories, other cases, arson fires, insurance fraud and other stoked up deflection stories.  

• ex DOD
• ex Military 
• Explosives Background
• Large Properties e.g. land in Northern California
• Current law enforcement or friends of law enforcement
• Persons deployed in a military sensitive positions
• Access to logistics, banking, finance, drones and Cointelpro investigations
• Access to Law Enforcement Databases and Intel

While neighborhoods erupt in flames with huge pipeline explosions, staged and faked arrests underneath there are many good officers but in my case someone had plans for me. 

Looking motives on the San Bruno Fire using a disruption model one could surmise that disrupting gas lines could create a ripple effect throughout the system or region.  Gas transmission and power arrive at numerous entry points.  My past project once included mapping SBC Global's DSL system to orders.  Not complicated but an eye opener but SBC inadvertently bankrupted the agency responsible for paying me back in 2001.  So much for feeding your kids but Hicks Consulting sued and won so SBC retaliated by cutting off Hicks Consulting.  


Please see Case CIVMSC02-00313 - HICKS VS SBC SERVICES or CC-courts.org

Giving Credit where it's due

• PG&E is moving in the right direction in regards to safety and placing citizens over the cantankerous PUC debates but working in unison instead of cross principles would help facilitate progress.  
• The neighborhood you're protecting could be yours, mine or your family. 
• The businesses that rely on consistent and reliable power that drive one of the largest economies in the world rely on an aging system with systemic problems from legacy that has left the room long ago.  

It would be nice for SBC to pony up as the Agency filed Bankruptcy and vanished.  The project broke down after working for months without payment. 

Mid September 2010 PG&E High Performance Engineer

Around early September 2010 right around the San Bruno Fire a person (Coded: H.S.) contacted me for software services.  He arrived either the first or second Saturday after the biggest pipeline fire in the country.  He placed an order for services, left a deposit and was instructed return with documents.  The problem was he never returned but the bigger problem was when Oberhoffer arrived on top of this appointment but today I'm highly suspect of Oberhoffer's timing and his connection to other suspect events, his job history, and suspiciously early pictures he took of the Piedmont Lumber Fire that was a Johnny on the Spot scoop or perhaps he knows more.

Months later I'm homeless, either fighting for survival or meeting some of the nicest down and outs around.  Stuck in San Francisco Tenderloin for four months but using by Singing To Survive I returned to Walnut Creek by Christmas where I connected with Hillside Covenant Church.

1. Anyone connected to PGE is not my normal client 
2. The High Performance Engineer would be an innocuous event except that this was days after the San Bruno Fire 
3. The other person in the room possessed images of the Piedmont Lumber Fire that in my opinion plus that of others was far too early in the fire. 
4. The day of the Piedmont fire I was attending State Senators Mark Desauliniers event at the Lafayette library more or less ranting about what would surface as CNET. 
5. That afternoon my engine threw a rod - oops the oil sensing light failed - thank god for Mormons who sell crappy cars. 

The vendor for PGE owes me about $10,000 but PGE's attorneys have ignored me saying that their vendors are responsible for paying their bills.  They took my time sheets and got paid but decided that paying me was not in their best interest.  Weeks later my car was totaled in Lafayette - search on accident in this blog.  

Senator DeSaulnier showed concern initially but my concerns are the San Bruno Fire is a critical infrastructure component required for the worlds 11th largest economy to function.  I didn't ask for this connection but my suspect is relentless but I've filed police reports in Walnut Creek, Lafayette and Pleasant Hill but since filing them I've had about three solid attempts on life - e.g. car accidents, someone from Hillside Covenant Church tried to run me over in Lafayette - Lt. Gorski told me to pound sand while he was busy driving Vice Ultra Lounge out of business, the Chief of Police of Lafayette, Pleasant Hill, Walnut Creek, Danville and Clayton have all announced their retirements since CNET became a household name. 

Wait until you read about the connection to my arson map and Peter Branagh where I was at event where CCSO detectives appeared.  A movie making event where they made me the star?  Not really but days later a young kid at the Walnut Creek McDonald's yelled Daddy it's Pete, get your gun! 

I get it - I get that the story is far from over.  

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