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Horror as drivers are trapped in deadly tunnel inferno when truck explodes before huge multi-car pileup
UK Daily Mail ^
| 2/15/2025
| James Gordon
Posted on 02/15/2025 8:27:49 AM PST by fruser1
A fiery pileup turned a quiet Friday morning into a nightmare as an inferno raged inside an Interstate 80 tunnel in southwestern Wyoming claiming at least two lives, and leaving five others seriously injured, forcing a total shutdown of the highway.
Anyone trapped in the tunnel would have been forced to escape on foot through the smoke and darkness.
Rescuers desperately tried to reach victims, but the tunnel’s structure - now compromised by falling concrete and searing heat - turned into a death trap.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disaster; fire; i80; transformers; transportation; tunnel; wyoming
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It appears Atlas Shrugged is being realized.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:27:49 AM PST
by
fruser1
To: fruser1
My first thought as well. Those poor people.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:28:33 AM PST
by
rlmorel
("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: fruser1
Probably not smart to have DEIs trying to maintain the tunnel.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:31:43 AM PST
by
BobL
To: rlmorel
Reminds me of an incident I just read about the other day.
Balvano train disaster (1944)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balvano_train_disaster
The Balvano train disaster was the deadliest railway accident in Italian history and one of the worst railway disasters ever. It occurred on the night between 2–3 March 1944 in Balvano, Basilicata. 517 people in a steam-hauled, coal-burning freight train (mostly stowaways) died of carbon monoxide poisoning during a protracted stall in a tunnel.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:34:06 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: fruser1
My thoughts as well but this did happen in a long tunnel between Italy and Germany (IIRC) a few years ago!
The loss of life was terrible!
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:36:06 AM PST
by
RedMonqey
(!Trump, the once and future president!he had no one to blame but his own incompetence.)
To: fruser1
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:39:32 AM PST
by
gitmo
(If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
To: dfwgator
Wow. It got lost as just one more event with large loss of life that was the norm in WWII. I had never heard of it.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:43:45 AM PST
by
rlmorel
("A people that elect corrupt politicians are not victims...but accomplices." George Orwell)
To: rlmorel
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:43:50 AM PST
by
Ezekiel
(🆘️ "Come fly with US". 🔴 Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with MARS ♂️, aka every man)
To: rlmorel
This is why you see those big fans in tunnels.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:45:07 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: fruser1
You never know when your day has come. Live life to the fullest, there is no tomorrow.
To: rlmorel
Wow. It got lost as just one more event with large loss of life that was the norm in WWII. I had never heard of it.
The Allies suppressed news of the incident, fearing impact on morale.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:46:45 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: fruser1
It appears a tractor trailer loaded with transformers was involved in the tunnel crash, and the transformers were exploding, according to Cowboy State Daily.I wonder if the insulating oil in them is now more flammable and “eco friendly”.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:50:25 AM PST
by
broken_clock
(Go Trump! Prayers answered!)
To: fruser1
After this, intermodal freight looks pretty good.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:52:14 AM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
To: fruser1
If our press corps could follow a non-Trump story, we wouldn't have to rely on the UK for our news.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:55:26 AM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Only place I go for US news that’s not reported here.
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posted on
02/15/2025 8:59:07 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
To: SkyDancer
Yes, and I've noticed that Daily Mail coverage is extensive. They bring forth paragraph, after
paragraph, photos upon photos, and interviews with principals. Nothing in the USA comes as
close to that kind of depth and breadth. You are lucky to get a stock image and two paragraphs from American newspapers.
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posted on
02/15/2025 9:06:22 AM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endureth forever. — Psalm 106)
To: fruser1
To: fruser1
A similar thing happened in the Caldecott tunnel on Hwy 24 in the East Bay Area back in the 80s.
That same tunnel was used to film some of the scenes for the movie “THX 1138.”
To: Governor Dinwiddie
Exactly - I also read the cover sheets to the India Times and a Japanese paper and one from Australia.
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posted on
02/15/2025 9:12:55 AM PST
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
To: fruser1
How awful!
That’s the stuff nightmares are made of.
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posted on
02/15/2025 9:14:42 AM PST
by
metmom
(He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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