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The Latest: Colorado checks gas lines after fatal explosion

Ted Poszywak, left, chief of the Frederick-Firestone fire department, and public information officer Summer Campos, right, take questions from members of the media during a news conference, while standing next to a picture of the location where an unrefined gas leak explosion killed two people inside their home in Firestone, Colo., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Poszywak said that an investigation has revealed that the April 17, 2017 explosion was caused by unrefined natural gas that was leaking from a small abandoned pipeline from a nearby well owned by Anadarko Petroleum. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
Ted Poszywak, left, chief of the Frederick-Firestone fire department, and public information officer Summer Campos, right, take questions from members of the media during a news conference, while standing next to a picture of the location where an unrefined gas leak explosion killed two people inside their home in Firestone, Colo., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Poszywak said that an investigation has revealed that the April 17, 2017 explosion was caused by unrefined natural gas that was leaking from a small abandoned pipeline from a nearby well owned by Anadarko Petroleum. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

By Associated Press 4 min read

FIRESTONE, Colo. (AP) – The Latest on a fatal house explosion in northern Colorado (all times local):

6:05 p.m.

Colorado’s chief oil and gas regulator says the state doesn’t have a complete record of all gas lines in the state like the one blamed for a fatal home explosion.

Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission Director Matt Lepore said Tuesday operators are required to tell regulators the planned route of the pipelines that carry gas from a well to storage tanks or other collection points. But he says the state doesn’t have a record of all the lines ever installed.

An April 17 explosion in the town of Firestone killed two people. Investigators blame the explosion on gas that leaked from an old, unused pipeline that was still connected to a nearby well. Officials say they don’t know why the line remained connected to the well.