June 1987
Events that took place in Fairfax County in June, 1987:
- June 6 – The Fair Oaks Hospital opens.[1] A 37-year-old Chantilly man with a severe case of the shits becomes the first patient admitted.[2]
- June 11 – While operating a bulldozer, 37-year-old Keith Carpenter, a worker for F. E. Gregory and Sons, unintentionally punctures a buried 32-inch diameter gasoline pipeline, sending a 100 foot high geyser of super unleaded gasoline gushing out of the four-inch hole in the Singleton's Grove neighborhood of Centreville. Thousands of gallons of gasoline flood the area, in places 4 to 6 inches deep, forcing the evacuation of 300 homes in both the Singleton's Grove and the Sunset Ridge neighborhoods, as well as 700 students of nearby Union Mill Elementary School and the 150 construction workers on the site. Nearly 400 firefighters as well as other emergency personnel respond to the scene to effect the cleanup.[3]
- June 17 – 17-year-old Fairfax High School student Chong Hwan Pak drowns in Burke Lake while swimming between several boats.[4]
- June 20 – To help spread book learnin' to the po' hicks of the area, the Pohick Regional Library opens in Burke.
References
- ↑ Gregg, Sandra R. "2 New Hospitals in Fairfax Face Admissions Test." The Washington Post (pre-1997 Fulltext): b.03. National Newspapers Core. Jun 06 1987. Web. 5 Apr. 2012.
- ↑ Thomas, Pierre. "An Impatient Patient Hastens the Opening of Fair Oaks Hospital." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 7 June 1987. Web. 06 June 2016.
- ↑ Davis, Patricia and John Ward Anderson. "Break in Gasoline Pipeline Forces Evacuations in Fairfax." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 2. Jun 12 1987. ProQuest. Web. 29 July 2014.
- ↑ "Swimmer's Body Recovered." The Washington Post (1974-Current file): 1. Jun 19 1987. ProQuest. Web. 8 Aug. 2014.
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