CA high-speed rail construction site catches fire in southeast Fresno

abc ^ | 2-5-26 | Gabe Ferris

[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.

[dynachrome]

Another 10 year delay.

[cgbg]

I am impressed there was anything to burn other than environmental impact statements.

Lol.

[Lurker]

Well there is taxpayer money. They’ve already burned mountains of that.

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[oldasrocks]

They’re building the rail lines with plywood? No wonder it is not working.

[rlmorel]

[MinorityRepublican]

[KarlInOhio]

Fire? Boring! I had blimp crash for the next delay cause.

Oh, the hu^manity!

[pissant]

it was all those wacky Raisin Festival attendees

[quantim]

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

[ProtectOurFreedom]

They hired the cheapest chief engineer they could find. He has extraordinary materials knowledge.

[frank ballenger]

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

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

[cgbg]

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.

[FrankRizzo890]

“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.”

[SpaceBar]

China has ghost cities, California has a ghost train.

[Leaning Right]

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.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

One of the workers grifters dropped his crack pipe into the plywood.

[hanamizu]

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.

[dfwgator]

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!"

[PAR35]

Insurance fire?

[RckyRaCoCo]

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