Shortly before dawn one morning a couple years ago, a gasoline pipeline erupted and a terrible fire flared up right down the middle of a suburban St. Paul, Minnesota, street. A woman delivering newspapers was caught in the flames; her car ignited and she was severely burned, but survived. People were awakened to discover flames shooting higher than telegraph poles. "The whole neighborhood is on fire," was one person’s description. In one home, a father woke up his wife, told her to get her daughter while he got their son, and to get outside as quickly as possible. He took the boy out the back door; his wife went out the front door with their daughter, and the two of them were instantly engulfed by the flames. They died in a nearby hospital a few hours later. A warning could not save them, …