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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 07/15/2009 6:19:54 PM PDT 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; hot; hotnews; hotnewsbabe; michigan
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To: Shermy

21 posted on 07/15/2009 6:34:05 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:35:28 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: just me

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 07/15/2009 6:35:44 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:36:33 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:37:31 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:38:06 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Obama. Clear and Pres__ent Danger.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

looks like a set from Terminator...


27 posted on 07/15/2009 6:38:41 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:38:52 PM PDT by Choose Ye This Day (America is the best -- 20 million illegal immigrants can't be wrong.)
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To: UCANSEE2
The flames from the gasoline were so intense, it collapsed the overpass.

That's impossible. The "truthers" told us so.

29 posted on 07/15/2009 6:40:10 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:41:11 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:41:11 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:41:55 PM PDT by Beaten Valve
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To: Shermy

OH NO!!!


33 posted on 07/15/2009 6:42:07 PM PDT by Shelayne (Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty that was, and is, and IS TO COME!)
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To: MikefromOhio
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 07/15/2009 6:43:00 PM PDT by meyer ( "The world is a beautiful place and worth fighting for. But not without Freedom.")
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To: Shermy

omg...there’s no way anyone could have made it out of that truck and car!


35 posted on 07/15/2009 6:44:53 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:44:58 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:45:04 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:45:05 PM PDT 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 07/15/2009 6:45:47 PM PDT by UCANSEE2
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To: just me

Obama’s fault.


40 posted on 07/15/2009 6:48:11 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (If Hitler used a TelePrompter, we would all be speaking German...)
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