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Fiery Crash Collapses California Freeway (Hey Rosie! Gas Fire Melts Steel!)
AP ^ | Apr 29, 4:45 PM (ET) | MARCUS WOHLSEN

Posted on 04/29/2007 3:41:40 PM PDT by Captain Shamrock

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - A heavily traveled section of freeway that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed early Sunday after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and erupted into flames, authorities said.

Flames shot 200 feet in the air and the heat was intense enough to melt part of the freeway and cause the collapse, but the truck's driver walked away from the scene with second-degree burns. No other injuries were reported.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: baybridge; gastankertruckfire; rosie
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To: TomGuy

It ios amazing the driver walked away. How did that happen?


21 posted on 04/29/2007 4:08:02 PM PDT by ClaireSolt (Have you have gotten mixed up in a mish-masher?)
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To: Captain Shamrock

Don’t you know anything George Bush did!!!!!!!!


22 posted on 04/29/2007 4:08:21 PM PDT by Anti-Christ is Hillary (If Moreen Dowd can call herself a journalist than so can I.)
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To: Captain Shamrock

Rosie knows as much about structural strength as she knows about chastity.


23 posted on 04/29/2007 4:08:50 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: Captain Shamrock
Oh yeah, I forgot: BusHitler and the neo-cons staged this to counter the clear delusions evidence that the reality based community has set forth proving 9-11 was an inside job by the CIA, Haliburton, and the Jooooos. They planted explosives on the bridge and then staged the accident. How do we know this? Because gas doesn't burn hot enough to melt steel, of course!

/moonbat

//seriously, you WILL see this on wacko left-wing websites

24 posted on 04/29/2007 4:08:53 PM PDT by piytar
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To: Captain Shamrock

Don’t you know anything George Bush did it!!!!!!!!


25 posted on 04/29/2007 4:08:58 PM PDT by Anti-Christ is Hillary (If Moreen Dowd can call herself a journalist than so can I.)
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To: Captain Shamrock

Lol! I saw this on Fox and thought of Rosie.


26 posted on 04/29/2007 4:09:55 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: Brilliant

I still wanna know how Rosie thinks all those steel beams get produced in the first place.


27 posted on 04/29/2007 4:11:11 PM PDT by Domandred
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To: piytar

Second-degree burns aren’t too bad. It’s the type of burn you’d get from accidentally grabbing a curling iron (which I once did when I blindly reached behind me for the Windex that was on the bathroom counter when I was cleaning a mirror when I was very young). Can definitely walk away with 2nd-degree. It’s third-degree that’ll leave you near-death.


28 posted on 04/29/2007 4:14:00 PM PDT by DrGunsforHands
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To: Captain Shamrock

“Actually, I would say the steel was deformed into losing its ability to carry the weight of the freeway not melted like a steel smelter. However, the pictures tell the story of how an intensive gas fire can collapse a steel supported structure like a freeway bridge...or a skyscraper!”

Actually, secret agents were seen at this site only yesterday in anticipation of this crash. They must have planted explosives which were used to bring down the overpass. The crash and resulting fire was only a cover.


29 posted on 04/29/2007 4:16:12 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: driftdiver

Somebody check that driver—I wonder what “Company” he worked for? This was obviously a distraction from Bush’s failed Iraq policies. /sarc


30 posted on 04/29/2007 4:24:06 PM PDT by opticks
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To: Normal4me
She’s too busy rubbing something else on her face to comment...

Oh my, lets make a list.

1. Pizza

2. Carpet

31 posted on 04/29/2007 4:29:45 PM PDT by Mark was here (Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?)
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To: Captain Shamrock

The traffic in this area is some of the worst in the state. It will be very bad come Monday.


32 posted on 04/29/2007 4:35:38 PM PDT by umgud ("When seconds count, the police are just 10 minutes away!")
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To: Captain Shamrock
Maybe Rosie can be a guest host on MythBusters. Them guys and their silly tricks using science and stuff. She can teach them the Truth!
33 posted on 04/29/2007 4:36:40 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Captain Shamrock
... fire can collapse a steel supported structure like a freeway bridge...or a skyscraper....

Hey ....Rotten Rosie.... are you catching a clue here??


A section of highway lies burned and crumbled in
Emeryville, Calif., after a tanker carrying gasoline
exploded on Sunday, April 29, 2007. In the resulting
blaze, a section of freeway that funnels traffic onto
the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed.
Thetruck's driver walked away from the scene and called
a taxi, which took him to a nearby hospital with
second-degree burns.

(AP Photo/The Oakland Tribune, Noah Berger)

See the SeattlePI article for a 'related video'.

35 posted on 04/29/2007 4:38:29 PM PDT by skeptoid (AE, AA , MBS)
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To: Captain Shamrock
Image hosted by Photobucket.com Oh Woe is me... Why's everybody pickin on me???

36 posted on 04/29/2007 4:39:56 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist)
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To: driftdiver
I agree that Rosie is a moron who apparently has never seen a blacksmith forging steel by heating it until malleable and then hammering it. But Rosie’s credentials as an ignoramus wee hardly in question.

I do wonder about these accidents and the ability of Al Quaeda to learn how a critical fire at a critical point in the transportation system can crate havoc.

Here in Atlanta we had a series of bridge jumpers (though, not lately) who were able to back up traffic for miles. Any terrorist watching that would have a perfect idea of how a low manpower force could concentrate casualties.

37 posted on 04/29/2007 4:42:32 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken (Seldom right but never in doubt)
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To: Captain Shamrock

Same thing happened just north of the Bronx some years back, where the interestate comes down into the Major Deegan expressway. A tanker crashed and burned avoiding some idiot that cut him off. It took almost a year before the overpass was restored.


38 posted on 04/29/2007 4:44:49 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

We are a free society. That creates more risk than a strictly controlled society.

If they could attack us and thought it was the best course of action they would. Right now it serves their purpose to not attach us at home and let the dems sow discord. If they were to attach us here then our resolve would be united as it should already be. Evidently 3000 weren’t enough for some Americans to realize what we face.


39 posted on 04/29/2007 4:48:13 PM PDT by driftdiver
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To: Captain Shamrock

not to mention, the lightweight bar joists at the WTC were a LOT flimsier than a highway bridge girder built to handle San Francisco earthquakes


40 posted on 04/29/2007 4:48:26 PM PDT by finnman69
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