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Tanker Fire Closes BQE (Brooklyn Queens Expressway, NYC)
http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_016121925.html ^
Posted on 01/16/2006 9:31:36 AM PST by cgk
Tanker Fire Closes BQE
Truck Overturns, Spills Fuel Oil
(CBS) QUEENS A tanker truck overturned on the BQE, spilling 8,000 gallons of fuel oil. The truck is fully engulfed in flames. Smoke is visible from as far away as New Jersey.
The BQE is closed in both directions at Broadway in Jackson Heights.
There is no official word on any injuries.
Chopper 2 is on its way and will have live pictures from the scene. WCBSTV.Com will bring you more details as they become available.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bqe; tanker; tankercrash; tankerfire; tankertrucks; truckcrash
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Breaking... Fox News Alert = lots of pictures with much of the skyline in that area of NYC covered in thick black smoke. The 7 train has been suspended... looking for more info...
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:31:36 AM PST
by
cgk
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:33:41 AM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: cgk
I can see the smoke from my office window. Looks pretty awful.
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:33:53 AM PST
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:34:09 AM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: cgk
Was a tanker truck stolen last week ?
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:34:48 AM PST
by
al baby
(Father of the Beeber)
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:35:51 AM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: cgk
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:36:46 AM PST
by
Fiddlstix
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To: cgk
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:37:49 AM PST
by
PilloryHillary
(Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.)
To: cgk
Light off a tanker truck to close both sides of the freeway.
Great way to give yourself an open road on one side and a target rich road on the other. Go one exit down on both sides of the freeway. Drive down the open road side and fire on the traffic jammed side. Build yourself some frickin War Wagons. This will happen one day.
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:39:54 AM PST
by
calljack
(Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
To: calljack
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:42:11 AM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:42:50 AM PST
by
cgk
(I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
ping! (Especially for NYC-area FReepers)
Please FReepmail me if you want on or off my ‘miscellaneous’ ping list.
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:43:36 AM PST
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
To: neverdem
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:44:00 AM PST
by
nutmeg
("We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." - Hillary Clinton 6/28/04)
To: cgk
The Live Cam Media loves a good fire.
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:45:22 AM PST
by
HairOfTheDog
(Join the Hobbit Hole Troop Support - http://freeper.the-hobbit-hole.net/ 1,000 knives and counting!)
To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
No kidding.
I hope this never happens but it's pretty damn low tech and it gives the bad guys a chance to get away.
I hate to say it but I'm writing the screenplay.
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:45:29 AM PST
by
calljack
(Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
To: cgk
I'll be on the BQE this coming Wednesday. Hopefully this fire will help fill the potholes.
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:45:30 AM PST
by
Cagey
To: Cagey
lol
It's the worst road that you will ever travel in the US., I think.
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:51:33 AM PST
by
yoely
To: Cagey
Problem is will the heat from the fire cause the supporting beams to soften and bend thereby making the highway unusable for a period of time. We will see soon enough.
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:53:28 AM PST
by
appeal2
To: yoely
I once ran over a head on the BQE.
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posted on
01/16/2006 9:53:55 AM PST
by
Cagey
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