Derailment near Pamukova in Sakarya province. Rails look OK here.
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Posted on 07/18/2004 6:57:48 PM PDT by JustPiper
yes its all back up news is saying calls can take awhile to be answered
One of the only things I've found out is that they said (last night) that the driver would NOT be placed under arrest...
But nothing else other than this little 'snippet'...
"The driver, identified as Terry Lynn Eshleman, 62, of Bellflower, was not arrested, CHP officials said."
Will listen at 4 to local news and see what else I hear or can find out.
LOL. They could have had deep dish pizza, yum!
Derailment near Pamukova in Sakarya province. Rails look OK here.
Communication Breakdown At 911 Center
POSTED: 3:24 pm CDT July 22, 2004
UPDATED: 4:42 pm CDT July 22, 2004
{{{ CHICAGO -- A communication glitch}}} is interrupted operations at Chicago's 911 Center Thursday afternoon.
Mayoral Press Secretary Jacquelyn Heard said in a phone interview that the 911 Center was operating normally as of 3:40 p.m. She said officials from OEMC would hold a news conference shortly, though she had no further details.
Monique Bond, spokeswoman for the Office of Emergency Management and Communications, confirmed that information, saying that there were still delays at 3:50 p.m., but the system is working.
Bond said citizens with emergency calls are encouraged to call 911. Those calls will be automatically rerouted to the 311 Center. Non-emergency calls should continue to be directed to 311.
NBC5's Jennifer Mitchell reported that 911 operators were being sent to the 311 facility to help cover overflow calls.
Bond told NBC5 that generators were in place and supplying power as of 4 p.m. She said crews were working to restore full power to the center at 1411 W. Madison Ave.
Mitchell said that, according to firefighters, the entire building lost power shortly before 2:30 p.m. Thursday. {The cause of the outage was unknown. } Mitchell said the power went out before severe weather moved into that area of the city.
Com Ed crews were on hand, along with police and firefighters, assessing the situation.
Reporting from the Chicago Police station at Addison and Halsted streets, NBC5's Charlie Wojciechowski said that the problem persists with the phone system at the 911 Center, but that officers are in communication with police dispatchers.
Wojciechowski said a commander at that station recommended citizens contact their local precinct station for immediate response.
An additional report from NBC5's Phil Rogers confirmed information from the 911 Center that the system was up and running by 4 p.m.
Extra police officers were deployed throughout the city, police News Affairs Director David Bayless said outside the OEMC.
To raise the staff level, all officers assigned to second watch were held past the usual 2 p.m. end of their shift and will remain on-duty until further notice, Bayless said.
An investigation continues into the cause of the problem.
CLTV just changed their report too. Said it was NOT power related, cause "undetermined".
Hence is why I pinged a question.
Almost 130 people have died there, tragic.
No idea yet on what caused the derailment...
Thanks.
That is an intimidating site!
These reports are getting confusing!
http://www.truthusa.com/politics.html
HINT: Scroll down the page to the Clinton-Gore graphic.
See Links.
I wonder if the truck was sabotaged. I remember someone posted about the goblins talking about driving around in trucks and spilling or blowing nasties into the air or onto the road.
19 Accused Of Stealing, Selling Jet Fuel From MIA
Suit Claims Airport Workers Stole 2.7 Million Gallons Of Fuel
POSTED: 5:10 pm EDT July 22, 2004
http://www.nbc6.net/news/3566060/detail.html
Chicago 911 Emergency System Crashes
Jul 22, 2004 3:10 pm US/Central
CHICAGO (CBS 2) Chicago’s 911 call center went down Thursday, preventing any incoming calls for emergency help.
Reports are the emergency center lost power, but as of 3:40PM, officals with the city said it was opperating again.
A ComEd official tells CBS 2 that the problem did not involve electrical power entering the building. They say power was flowing into the building, so the problem must have been an internal problem.
Some calls were reportedly getting through to police, but Chicago Police had been people to call 311 until the 911 system was restored.
http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_204161229.html
Power outage at 911 Center
Longer wait time on 911 calls
By Stacey Baca
July 22, 2004 — A partial power outage at the city's 911 Center means longer waits for emergency calls and more police officers on the streets. Residents experiencing emergencies should continue to call 911. All calls should be picked up with three rings.
Officials held a news conference Thursday afternoon. They are not sure what led to the power outage.
Ron Huberman: "As of this point it's preliminary to say. Very shortly all the backup systems kicked in. I'm not able to tell you the exact amount of time there was a glitch but it was a short window of time while the backup system kicked in," said one official.
Reporter: What is the most important point to get across to everyone out there who is experiencing some problems in trying to give you a call?
Huberman: If someone is experiencing a problem just continue to call 911. If we don't pick up on the first ring please wait. A 911 operator will pick up the phone. Police have also taken action and have held up their second watch. They have their tactical units on the street so there are significantly more police officers on the streets than there were earlier and than there would normally be. A lot of preemptive steps have been taken.
Reporter: Why would you have more police officers?
Huberman: Any time we have a system failure we always go to a mode where we assume the worst and so in order to do that if the 911 system were to have an extended down time, which in this case it did not, then they would be able to flag down an officer. It was preemptive move on our part that is standard when we have a system glitch such as this.
Reporter: Right now you still don't know exactly what happened? Can you give us a little idea of what unfolded and what happened around 2:30?
Huberman: Yeah. We're going to come out with that a little bit later. It did have to do with the power system and at this point we are ascertaining exactly what occurred and what the specific technical glitch was that caused this. As soon as we have concrete information we'll be back to share with you.
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/news/072204_ns_911center.html
>>>Why the sudden concern? What did I miss?
I'm waiting on more info...then I will respond.
stoopid, irresponsible dem reported media!
Just curious.....
Has anyone heard of any problem with flights out of China today or tomorrow?
Have a personal reason for asking. My son is there right now. He is supposed to fly out of Hong Kong in about 8 hours.
He just returned to his hotel room after some meetings, and had a message from the airline requesting that he come to the airport right away. They said they "wouldn't tell him anything over the phone." As soon as he said that our phone connection went dead. Have not been able to contact him since. I'm sure it is probably nothing.....but I am a nervous mother.
Please, if any of you hear or read anything, let me know.
I'll do the same.
Thanks.
To: Calpernia
holy mother of god....anyone know if the Pope has a calendar of appearances listed somewhere
2,267 posted on 07/22/2004 3:43:20 PM CDT by Calpernia
but the holy mother of God came from what??? For the question was regarding his appearances
>>>Specifically, Secretary Thompson said, emergency responders, hospitals and other health care providers
Do the health care providers know about this?
There have been no changes to the facitilies my husband and his colleagues work at. Nor have they heard anything.
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