<p>A crew member helps sob up the remains of about 10,000 gallons of crude oil in the Atwater Village section of Los Angeles on Thursday.</p>
May 16, 2014
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May 16, 2014 9 p.m.
A slippery situation
Geyser of oil sprays onto streets of L.A.
LOS ANGELES - A geyser of oil sprayed onto buildings and puddled in knee-high pools of crude in Los Angeles streets after a valve on a high-pressure pipeline failed Thursday.