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CA high-speed rail construction site catches fire in southeast Fresno
abc ^ | 2-5-26 | Gabe Ferris

Posted on 02/06/2026 3:47:23 PM PST by dynachrome

Construction on part of the High-Speed Rail project came to a halt on Wednesday as crews battled a fire at the Church Avenue overpass in southeast Fresno.

"There's a lot of plywood and lumber that's involved in this," Josh Sellers with Fresno Fire said.

Workers, all unharmed, watched as firefighters attacked from above.

"We have the railroad tracks here that we ended up having to close down and stop the trains because we have a ladder truck in place that's blocking the tracks," Sellers said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc30.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; fire; fresno; grift; highspeedrail; hispeedchoochoo; pelosicrimefamily; scam

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Another 10 year delay.
1 posted on 02/06/2026 3:47:23 PM PST by dynachrome
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I am impressed there was anything to burn other than environmental impact statements.

Lol.


2 posted on 02/06/2026 3:48:36 PM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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Well there is taxpayer money. They’ve already burned mountains of that.

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3 posted on 02/06/2026 3:49:24 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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They’re building the rail lines with plywood? No wonder it is not working.


4 posted on 02/06/2026 3:52:14 PM PST by oldasrocks
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To: dynachrome

5 posted on 02/06/2026 3:52:20 PM PST by rlmorel (Factio Communistica Sinensis Delenda Est)
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To: dynachrome

6 posted on 02/06/2026 3:52:29 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: dynachrome
Fire? Boring! I had blimp crash for the next delay cause.

Oh, the humanity!

7 posted on 02/06/2026 3:55:26 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Dept. of Education should teach about Nietzsche: DOGE didn't kill it and now it's stronger than ever)
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To: dynachrome

it was all those wacky Raisin Festival attendees


8 posted on 02/06/2026 3:58:39 PM PST by pissant ((Deport them all))
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To: dynachrome

It couldn’t be homeless meth heads freebasing or anything, certainly not.


9 posted on 02/06/2026 4:01:35 PM PST by quantim (Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
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To: dynachrome
They hired the cheapest chief engineer they could find. He has extraordinary materials knowledge.


10 posted on 02/06/2026 4:01:45 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: dynachrome

News clip followed by California survivors vowing “I still want to vote for Gavin Newsom for President.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpDCarajzZg


11 posted on 02/06/2026 4:01:52 PM PST by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: KarlInOhio

Alien UFOs are using it for target practice.

It is never going to get built anyway so zapping it does not violate the Prime Directive.

Lol.


12 posted on 02/06/2026 4:03:38 PM PST by cgbg ("Your identity is how power treats you.")
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“Welp, all the lumber we were going to use to make the forms to pour the concrete with have burned up. We’ll have to wait for the next round of funding.”


13 posted on 02/06/2026 4:09:04 PM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: cgbg

China has ghost cities, California has a ghost train.


14 posted on 02/06/2026 4:18:35 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: dynachrome

This could have been avoided had California hired 10,000 no-show fire marshals for the project.

Oh, wait. They probably already did. So hire 10,000 more.


15 posted on 02/06/2026 4:25:03 PM PST by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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One of the workers grifters dropped his crack pipe into the plywood.

16 posted on 02/06/2026 4:26:19 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie ( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and his mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
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To: dynachrome

It’s always fun to note that the Central Pacific and Union Pacific railroads managed to lay tracks from Council Bluffs, Iowa to Oakland, California in less time than California has laid no tracks from Bakersfield to Merced.


17 posted on 02/06/2026 4:48:46 PM PST by hanamizu
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California in less time than California has laid no tracks from Bakersfield to Merced.



"I hired you people to get a bit of track laid, not to jump around like a bunch of Kansas City f@ggots!"
18 posted on 02/06/2026 4:52:38 PM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dynachrome

Insurance fire?


19 posted on 02/06/2026 5:22:48 PM PST by PAR35
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To: dfwgator

“don’t know, has something to do with where choo choo go”


20 posted on 02/06/2026 5:24:14 PM PST by RckyRaCoCo (there are demons out there, and they look like people)
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