Firefighters from Three States Rushed to Bedford County Explosion

Susan Phillips

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Susan Phillips tells stories about the consequences of political decisions on people's every day lives. She has worked as a reporter for WHYY since 2004. Susan's coverage of the 2008 Presidential election resulted in a story on the front page of the New York Times. In 2010 she traveled to Haiti to cover the earthquake. That same year she produced an award-winning series on Pennsylvania's natural gas rush called "The Shale Game." She received a 2013 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Journalism Award for her work covering natural gas drilling in Pennsylvania. She has also won several Edward R. Murrow awards for her work with StateImpact. In 2013/14 she spent a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow. She has also been a Metcalf Fellow, an MBL Logan Science Journalism Fellow and reported from Marrakech on the 2016 climate talks as an International Reporting Project Fellow. A graduate of Columbia School of Journalism, she earned her Bachelor's degree in International Relations from George Washington University.

November 3, 2011 | 12:28 PM

WJAC-TV has this report on the compressor station fire in western Pennsylvania. Want to know more about how Pennsylvania’s first responders are preparing for gas industry related fires? Check out State Impact Pennsylvania’s story on emergency preparedness here.

Talk to any emergency responder in a natural gas drilling area of Pennsylvania, and he’ll probably tell you it’s ‘only a matter of time’ before a Marcellus Shale well blows up.