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 ...

We asked our followers on Facebook if any of them were living in the Las Vegas valley when the incident happened at PEPCON 30 years ago. Here are some of the replies we received: Remember it well. We ...

Ask just anyone where they were on May 4, 1988 and you’ll probably get a blank stare. Ask anyone from Henderson and you’ll get vivid recollections of “the blast”-- one of the biggest explosions in U.S ...

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 ...

It has been 28 years since a massive explosion rocked the old Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada plant in Henderson. 2 people were killed and more than 300 injured in the PEPCON ...

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, ...