An explosion and fire at a Washington state oil refinery shook homes and shot flames into the night sky early Friday, killing three people and critically injuring four others.

The fire struck the Tesoro Corp. refinery in Anacortes, about 70 miles north of Seattle on Puget Sound, at about 12:30 a.m., the company said. The blaze occurred while maintenance work was being performed and was extinguished in about 90 minutes.

Shooting at Pentagon
Seems to me like it hasn't been that long ago when there was a similar shooting at the Pentagon. Now a man by the name of John Patrick Bedell 36 of of Hollister, California is in the center of this most horrific act that injured two Pentagon Policeman. What was the motive of this man? No one really knows for sure. I read that he had some issue with the way the 911 attacks were handled and that it may be a motive for the shootings but who knows.

Mount Rainier is the tallest mountain in the Cascade Mountain Range which extends from southern British Columbia through Washington, Oregon and into Northern California. Mount Rainier was named for Rear Admiral Peter Rainier who was a friend of Captain George Vancouver who was the first European to officially see the mountain when he explored the Puget Sound in 1792 and Vancouver named Rainier after his friend.