September 16, 2010-According to reports an 81 year old victim of last weeks gas explosion has been identified.

The 81 year old has been identified as Elizabeth Torres, according to the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office.
Torres who died in the disaster was the mother of nine children and according to her family members, her body was found outside of her home located at 1660 Claremont Drive.

The home was leveled by the explosion and was around the corner from where the Pacific Gas & Electric Company gas pipeline ruptured. It was also down the street from the home where Jacqueline Greig and her daughter Janessa died in the explosion.

Another victim Jessica Morales age 20 died as a result of the San Bruno explosion in her boyfriend’s home a few blocks away, located on Earl Avenue.

According to officials there are still three people that are unaccounted for. Torres according to her daughter-in-law Teresa Whorton was home Thursday waiting for employees from the PG&E company to check out a non-working gas stove and complaints of smelling gas.

Whorton had visited with Torres earlier in the day and family members stated Torres was born and raised in San Francisco. The 81 year old had spent decades in the San Bruno home that was destroyed in the explosion. They stated that after Torres husband died a few years ago one of her daughters moved into the home to help Torres who was in a wheelchair.

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