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BREAKING: Massive Fire in Hazel Park (A bridge over the I-75 in Hazel Park, Michigan has collapsed)
WXYZ.com ^ | July 15, 2009
Posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:19:54 PM by just me
A bridge over the I-75 in Hazel Park, Michigan has collapsed following a massive explosion after a gas tanker overturned.
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: bridgecollapse; fire; hazelpark; michigan
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1 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:19:55 PM by just me
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To: just me
Where is Hazel park, my nephew is a truck driver?
2 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:20:48 PM by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: just me
Prayers going up, here. Hope everyone is OK.
3 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:21:47 PM by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: just me
HAZEL PARK, Mich. (WXYZ) - A tanker truck has exploded in the vacinity of northbound I-75/I-696/Nine Mile Road in Hazel Park, causing a massive fire and explosion. Eyewitnesses say the tanker tried to make it under the Nine Mile overpass but the top of the tanker hit the bridge, causing the explosion. It is not known what the tanker was carrying.
I-75 has been shut down in both directions from the center of the fire. Response teams from Hazel Park, Madison Heights and Ferndale are at the scene.
Multiple sources have told Action News that the overpass has collapsed at the center of the fire. The explosion, according to witnesses, occurred around 8:15 p.m.
Action News crews are on the way to the scene.
4 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:21:47 PM by FrPR
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To: hoosiermama
Detroit
5 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:22:09 PM by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: hoosiermama
Next town north of Detroit
6 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:22:12 PM by just me (Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. (John Adams)
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http://www.wxyz.com/news/story/BREAKING-Massive-Fire-in-Hazel-Park/DfqWrkOca0avFwo2l2ybSA.cspx7 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:22:15 PM by LucyJo ("...guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism...". George Washington)
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To: LucyJo
Thank you
8 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:24:15 PM by just me (Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. (John Adams)
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To: just me
Lots of Islamics in Michigan.
Just sayin'.
9 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:24:16 PM by Lazamataz ("If they taxed condoms and toilet paper, they'd have us coming and going." - Lazamataz, 2002)
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To: just me
Michigan state police spokesman tells BNO News two tankers were involved in the bridge explosion.
10 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:25:51 PM by WestCoastGal ( Earnhardt ranks eighth in the driver rating category in the last four races at Chicagoland)
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To: just me
live stream:
http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/generic/news/live_stream_111 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:26:17 PM by HollyB
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To: just me; cripplecreek
Thanks He drives between CHicago and Detroit.....
12 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:26:33 PM by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: just me
Prayers for all.
13 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:26:54 PM by LucyJo ("...guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism...". George Washington)
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To: just me
Wow, prayers.
14 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:27:51 PM by Larry Lucido (This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
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To: Larry Lucido
They think a fire truck fell with the bridge.
15 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:30:35 PM by just me (Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom. (John Adams)
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To: hoosiermama
My mother is keeping track of it too. Says the driver says he was hauling gasoline so at least that driver is OK.
16 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:30:52 PM by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: just me
Video up now.
http://www.wxyz.com/news/local/story/BREAKING-Massive-Fire-in-Hazel-Park/DfqWrkOca0avFwo2l2ybSA.cspx17 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:33:05 PM by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: cripplecreek
The article says witnesses claim the tanker was too tall for the clearance. Or so they say.
18 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:33:11 PM by Shermy (")
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To: HollyB; just me
I’m thinking how horrific it would be to see the vehicle of a loved one or friend. God bless and be with everyone involved.
19 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:33:18 PM by LucyJo ("...guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism...". George Washington)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
1-2 tankers exploded.
One had 9000 gals of gasoline.
The truck exploded after hitting the overpass.
Many vehicles on fire, or have exploded.
The flames from the gasoline were so intense, it collapsed the overpass.
20 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:33:48 PM by UCANSEE2
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21 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:34:05 PM by Shermy (")
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To: Lazamataz
Lots of Islamics in Michigan.
Just sayin'.
I grew up in the 1970s in St. Clair Shores, a suburb of Detroit. All of Detroit's freeways are below street level, with either sloped earth side walls, or massive side walls made of concrete. All of the cross streets are bridges over the freeways.
Seems like a tanker truck a month would overturn, burn, and cause damage to the concrete retaining walls. This is nothing new for Detroit.
Just sayin'.
22 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:35:28 PM by Yo-Yo
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Wait a minute. Obama is in office now. AND he’s been throwing billions and billions of dollars around, promising to repair our “crumbling infrastructure.”
If the I-35 bridge collapse was somehow “Bush’s fault” (as the leftnuts claim), then this collapse if definitely Obama’s fault.
23 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:35:44 PM by Choose Ye This Day (America is the best -- 20 million illegal immigrants can't be wrong.)
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To: Shermy
Damn, that looks pretty bad.
24 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:36:33 PM by Extremely Extreme Extremist ("President Obama, your agenda is not new, it's not change, and it's not hope" - Rush Limbaugh 02/28)
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To: Lazamataz
Lots of Islamics in Michigan.
Just sayin'.
And in the very week that some nutzo blogger tried to frame this entire forum as racist. Way to go.
Just sayin'
25 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:37:31 PM by MikefromOhio (Fides et Audax)
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To: UCANSEE2
Lordy. We had a similar thing happen in Birmingham, AL a few years ago.
26 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:38:06 PM by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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looks like a set from Terminator...
27 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:38:41 PM by RobFromGa (The FairTax is to tax policy as Global Warming is to science.)
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To: UCANSEE2
The flames from the gasoline were so intense, it collapsed the overpass.
Wait a minute. The 9/11 "Truther" nuts say that fuel can't burn hot enough to collapse concrete and steel. So that can't be what happened here.
28 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:38:52 PM by Choose Ye This Day (America is the best -- 20 million illegal immigrants can't be wrong.)
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The flames from the gasoline were so intense, it collapsed the overpass.
That's impossible. The "truthers" told us so.
29 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:40:10 PM by Larry Lucido (This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
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To: Choose Ye This Day
GMTA (and still praying for any victims).
30 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:41:11 PM by Larry Lucido (This tagline excerpted. To read more, click on MyOverratedBlog.com)
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To: Shermy
The article says witnesses claim the tanker was too tall for the clearance.
The police have also indicated that they believe the tanker truck took the wrong exit, or was forced (stuck in wrong lane) to take the exit.
IMHO, so far, it does not appear to be a planned action. It appears to be a deadly mistake.
They can't get close enough, due to the intense heat, to even tell how many cars , trucks, fire trucks, people are involved in this.
If no one has died in this, it will be a miracle.
31 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:41:11 PM by UCANSEE2
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To: Choose Ye This Day
Apparently gas is also flowing into the sewers and it is also on fire...
32 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:41:55 PM by Beaten Valve
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To: Shermy
OH NO!!!
33 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:42:07 PM by Shelayne (Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty that was, and is, and IS TO COME!)
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And in the very week that some nutzo blogger tried to frame this entire forum as racist. Way to go.
On the other hand, Islam is not a race.
Situation looks pretty bad - I hope that everyone survived.
34 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:43:00 PM by meyer ( "The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. But not without Freedom.")
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omg...there’s no way anyone could have made it out of that truck and car!
35 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:44:53 PM by Kimberly GG (PALIN - Supports a "path to citizenship" for ILLEGAL ALIENS.........DeMint/Sessions, 2012)
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To: Beaten Valve
Thanks for the updates. (All three of ‘em. LOL)
36 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:44:58 PM by Choose Ye This Day (America is the best -- 20 million illegal immigrants can't be wrong.)
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To: just me
I can’t understand how a tanker would hit an overpass. Most gasoline tankers are under 12 feet tall and all overpasses, unless marked otherwise, are supposed to be 13 ft 6 inches.
Being in the United States Radical Islamic headquarters area, I would bet that some terrorist put bombs into the hose tubes on the truck and exploded by cell phone. (all sarcasm of course, but you never know).
37 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:45:04 PM by antiunion person (PALIN/JINDAL 2012)
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http://www.freep.com/article/20090715/NEWS03/90715083/Tanker-fire-closes-I-75....Radio station WWJ-AM says an overpass at the crash site collapsed after the tanker and a tractor-trailer collided about 8:30 p.m.
The station says several other vehicles were involved in the crash 10 miles north of downtown Detroit.
Witnesses say flames and black, billowing plumes of smoke are reaching 150 to 200 feet into the air and gas that has reached the sewers along the freeway also has caught fire.
Police are ordering onlookers gathered along the top of the embankments along the crash site to move back to avoid exposure to toxic smoke.
Dorothy Mirasolo lives in Hazel Park, less than a half mile northwest of the explosion.
“I heard an explosion. I was like ‘What the heck is that?’ At first I thought it was a car hitting a car. Then it sounded like shotguns going off and it was very close.”
She said explosions kept happening over the course of five minutes.
She along with hundreds of others went on the pedestrian bridge, about 1/4 mile north of the accident site to get a birds-eye view of the happenings.
It was there that she noticed the bridge had collapsed.
“To me, when I first got there, it looked like it was OK. All of a sudden I noticed it was down. There was so much smoke you couldn’t see it very well.”
38 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:45:05 PM by Shermy (")
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To: Yo-Yo
Even if the truck driver turns out to be named Habib, I am pretty much sure this was a case of a driver forced off onto an unfamiliar exit, and ....scrapeeeeeeee...boom.
And as everyone else has been indicating, prayers for those involved, and their families.
39 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:45:47 PM by UCANSEE2
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To: just me
Obama’s fault.
40 posted on Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:48:11 PM by Kickass Conservative (If Hitler used a TelePrompter, we would all be speaking German...)
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