Posted on 09/10/2004 5:55:21 AM PDT by nyconse
COLCHESTER, Conn. -- A church in Colchester was leveled by an explosion Friday morning. St. Mary's Ukrainian Church on Route 16, also known as Linwood Ave., was flattened by the explosion just before 7 a.m., according to state police. State police spokesman, Sgt. J. Paul Vance, said the area had been cordoned off and the highway was shut down in both directions. Vance said there was no initial report of injuries and there was no immediate indication of what caused the explosion. The state fire marshal was called to the scene as well utility company crews.
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Sure will...how do we keep this current (bumped) so other freepers can see it...they may know something or be able to find something out?
Fox just ran some film of the church. Completely destroyed. Looks like from the inside out. My guess is natural gas. But who knows?
I passed by it on the way to work this morning. It's off Route 2 and they had the exit blocked off. We passed by at approximately 7:10 am and had not yet heard the news so we assumed it was some sort of automobile accident. There was no smoke or any indication from the higfhway that this had happened. The entire church was leveled. No cause yet. No injuries or damage to surrounding buildings.
WTF???
Ukrainian?
This better be a gas leak.....
As another poster has noted...thank God it wasn't Sunday or even Saturday...people would have died.
Yeah...I hope so...
Local TV News said they were not allowed to get near the Church. State Police still treating the area as a crime scene! Looks like gas explosion on Fox News but don't know what is up with "crime scene".
How do we bump this...keep it current?
Admin mod...please bump this post...I have no idea how to do this.
It sounds like the damage a gas implosion would do..leaving everything around it untouched...an implosion.
The MSM will try to say it was a Black church.
Yeah, another poster said this is being treated as a crime scene..WTF?
Crime scene? That's what the tape says!! It would be vandals if anything. Just playing it safe! I'm sure the Russia connection went off in everyones mind.
A-Q has nobody that could use the gas heating fuel angle to make it look like an accidental explosion do they?
Can we think of any in A-Q with engineering background or has experience with structures and explosions?
No Islamic students would ever come the USA to study engineering I'm sure.
Russian Christian churches of are known to spontaneously explode or burn anyway, especially in Connecticut.
I'll bet the janitor just left a case of his vodka too near to the gas furnace or gas hot water heater.
We should call in the NAACP from St. Louis and the ACLU from NYC and that creep at the Southern Poverty Law Center to prove this was just an accidental explosion that leveled this Russian Christian church with no evidence of any sleeper A-Q converts in prisons involved.
I'll bet this old Ukrainian church was really a secret safe house for Putin's KGB flunkies to plot assassinations of peaceful Chechian and Albanian Islamics here who are only a bit over their visa time limit.
Besides, we all know A-Q would never kill civilians or blow up building here in America!
When we found some extraordinary stuff in my dad's basement, they put up crime tape. There was no crime. It is just the tape they use to block off areas.
Thanks...
Catholic or Orthodox, anyone know? Was one or the other.
If you get an aerial shot, look at the debris footprint.
Ring shaped = internal explosion.
Fan shaped = external explosion.
Bare slab, no debris = magic.
Hey check this out...what the heck...some kind of flameable letters or what?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1211988/posts
Very sad
It looks to me like it was a gas explosion .. the whole place was leveled
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