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‘His eyes were as big as saucers.’ Remembering the Whatcom Creek explosion
Kim Malcolm
Chris Morgan
John O'Brien
November 24, 2025 / 5:59 pm
"It's not an easy story to tell." That's the way host Chris Morgan introduces a recent episode of his podcast "The Wild." The focus is a terrible accident that occurred 26 years ago, on June 10, 1999, in Bellingham, Washington. The Olympic Pipeline explosion killed three boys and destroyed a large swath of the Whatcom Creek Watershed. KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to Morgan about what happened and the recovery process.
This interview has been edited for clarity.
Kim Malcolm: Chris, I know that this place and what happened there are important to you. You can hear the care that you took in this episode. To start, I'd like you to tell us about Rya
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