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Oil Geyser Sickens Workers, Shutters Strip Club, Floods Streets

Workers at a health care facility were sickened after a crude oil pipeline break coated the area with a geyser of black goo

By Samia Khan and Kevin LaBeach | Thursday, May 15, 2014 | Updated 9:25 AM

Aerial video shows how far oil sprayed over part of Atwater Village after a leak from a pressurized pipeline early Thursday May 15, 2014. The geyser left a coating of oil on a nearby adult entertainment club.

Two people were hospitalized, streets flooded and a strip club evacuated after an early-morning crude oil pipeline break sent a geyser of black goo spurting into the air Thursday.

Streets were closed in Atwater Village near Glendale northeast of downtown Los Angeles after approximately 10,000 gallons of crude oil -- enough to fill a backyard swimming pool -- spilled over a half-mile area. An above-ground 20-inch pipeline broke around 12:15 a.m. Thursday near 5175 W. San Fernando Rd.

Oil shot 15 to 20 feet upward and onto a nearby business, The Gentlemen's Club, coating the windows. The Gentlemen's Club, which according to its website features "full nude exotic dancers," was evacuated, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.

Two workers from a nearby industrial plant for Baxter, a healthcare company, were sickened by the fumes and transported to the hospital.

Aerial video showed pools of oil across several blocks and on top of the adult entertainment club.

"This oil comes from the Bakersfield area, this is a pumping transfer station and pumping transfer station then transfers the oil to a storage facility in Long Beach," Batallion Chief David Spence said.

LAFD reported that oil was knee-high in some areas.

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