What began as a fire call at the PEPCON chemical plant outside Las Vegas quickly turned into one of the largest non-nuclear, non-military explosions in U.S. history. With huge quantities of ammonium ...

The Pacific Engineering and Production Company of Nevada, known as PEPCON, was destroyed 38 years ago in a series of ...

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 ...

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.

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. UFC 324 weigh-in results: ...

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, ...