CREWS CLEAN BEACH AREAS AFTER OIL SPILL.Byline: Kevin F. Sherry Daily News Staff Writer A coalition of local, state and federal officials spent Sunday skimming Skimming An electronic method of capturing a victim's personal information used by identity thieves. The skimmer is a small device that scans a credit card and stores the information contained in the magnetic strip. oil off the beaches near the Ventura Pier and taking steps to prevent further contamination. A landslide just before 2 p.m. Saturday ruptured an oil pipeline, sending about 8,400 gallons of crude down hillsides and onto beaches near Sanjon Road. The landslide also ruptured a 15-inch natural gas pipeline that caused an explosion and a dramatic fireball fireball, very bright meteor leaving a trail in the sky that can remain visible for several minutes; often a distinct sound, perhaps caused by very low frequency radio waves, is associated with it. until the gas line was shut off about an hour later. Officials said there was no threat of the oil catching fire. No one was injured in the landslide and no other property was damaged. Officials have no immediate plans to send people into canyons to survey the area because of the threat of new landslides, said Lt. Steve Edinger of the California Department of Fish and Game. ``We're not going to put people in a situation where they'd be unsafe,'' Edinger said. ``All of the hills right now are basically saturated with water.'' Helicopter crews have surveyed the site of the break, said David McKinney David McKinney is a Scottish journalist working for STV. McKinney's main occupation at the station is a reporter on the weekly sports show, Scotsport, although he has also filled in on the Central Scottish news programme, Scotland Today. , manager for external affairs with Shell Oil Co. ``They could still see shifting on the earth,'' McKinney said. ``We'd like the ground to dry out so we can get equipment in there.'' Both Shell and Texaco own oil pipelines in the area, but neither company could confirm whose pipeline had ruptured. ``We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if it's ours,'' said Norman Stanley, manager of U.S. public and government affairs with Texaco. ``We don't know if it's Shell's.'' Shell's meters showed a drop in pressure in the pipeline, although the area is covered with debris from the landslide and impossible to investigate directly, Edinger said. Only a small percentage of the oil made it onto beaches and into the ocean, McKinney said. Officials estimate that no more than one barrel - or 42 gallons - of oil made it into the ocean, Edinger said. Crews took advantage of Sunday's cloudless skies to construct a dam to hold any additional oil runoff Runoff The procedure of printing the end-of-day prices for every stock on an exchange onto ticker tape. Notes: If the "tape is late" then it can take a long time to print off all the closing prices. that may accompany the expected rains this week, McKinney said. ``We're lucky we had a day like today with good weather,'' he said. Crews are making use of front-end loaders, bulldozers, vacuum trucks, skimmers and dump trucks to carry away the excess oil. About 100 people from a variety of federal, state and local agencies have teamed together to analyze, contain and clean the spill, Edinger said. Although officials have been looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. any signs of wildlife that may have been affected by the oil spill oil spill: see water pollution. , none has been seen, he said. Both the Texaco and the Shell pipes were shut off and drained, McKinney said. ``The whole thing is shut down,'' he said. Texaco owns an 8-inch-diameter pipeline that runs 19 miles from Fillmore to Ventura, Stanley said. The pipeline, built in 1952, normally carries about 3,800 gallons of crude oil a day, he said. The 10-inch wide Shell line carries crude oil 95 miles from Ventura to Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. . The pipe, built in 1941, carries about 35,000 gallons a day. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1--Color--Ran in Simi Edition only) Flames shoot into the air Saturday after an explosion caused by a landslide that ruptured a natural gas pipeline above Ventura. (2) A cleanup crew fills sandbags sandbags small sacks containing sand used to support an anesthetized animal in dorsal recumbency and prevent it from rolling sideways during anesthesia or surgery. on a Ventura beach Sunday to try to contain oil spilling from a pipe broken in a landslide the day before. Michael Owen
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