Tanker explosion in FtWorth just now...

MSNBC ^ | June 26 2002

[Cobra Scott]

FORT WORTH, Texas, 12:41 p.m. CDT June 26, 2002 - A tanker truck reportedly carrying 9,000 gallons of gasoline exploded and burned just south of DFW Airport this morning right near a daycare.....

[Cobra Scott]

This just happened about a Mile East of my house. My wife had to go pick some kids up at the daycare and take them to the elementary school by my house to wait for their parents.

Curious things, which may be explainable; The first reports said the driver was inside the apartments at the time, then later switched to him surviving the explosion and walking away, to walking away from an accident unhurt before it blew up.

It looks like there were no other cars involved, none nearby. She said also that several cars were rteported on fire (CNN) but there were none that she could see.

She said it looks like it was parked there without the tractor, either that or it flipped and rolled. The hole was in the top of the tanker.

Strange. The whole area is now blocked off, so I couldn't get there to see anything. I am relyiong on my wife's report, and here report of video feeds from helicopter.

[sinkspur]

This happened two hours ago. Eyewitnesses said the trailer detached from the tractor and flipped over.

[Pete]

This happened two hours ago. Eyewitnesses said the trailer detached from the tractor and flipped over.

Is there an existing thread? I couldn't find one.

Sounds like it was just an accident from what you describe.

[SheLion]

I was watching this on Fox. They got the fire out and all ended well.

[deport]

Fuel tanker explodes in flames

06/26/2002

By WALT ZWIRKO / Dallas Web Staff

A tanker truck with thousands of gallons of fuel aboard went up in flames Wednesday morning on a busy thoroughfare in far northeast Fort Worth.

Trinity Boulevard was shut down just west of Highway 360 as firefighters fought the three-alarm blaze, fueled by 8,500 gallons of gasoline.

WFAA-TV

Firefighters work to extinguish the tanker fire on Trinity Boulevard.

About 200 children were safely evacuated from the nearby First Class Academy daycare center as a precaution. They were taken to the playground at South Euless Elementary School.

Residents at Wood Hollow Apartments were also evacuated. Kevin Harris was startled at what he heard around 10:15 a.m. "I was laying in my bed and it just exploded," he said. "I looked up, looked out the window and there was smoke everywhere. Boom! Boom!"

"We heard a big crash and tire screech," said Kaci Wilson. "We ran outside on the balcony and heard people screaming and yelling."

Also Online

Video: Yolanda Walker reports

The accident location is less than one mile from the southern perimiter of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Airport emergency vehicles designed to battle jet fuel fires were used to douse the tanker with foam.

The cause of the fire was under investigation. No one was injured.

Thick smoke could be seen rising from the burning truck for miles around.

WFAA-TV reporter Yolanda Walker contributed to this report.

E-mail: WZwirko@DallasNews.com

[Cobra Scott]

That's strange, I was watching a live telecast not 5 minutes ago and they were still putting foam on the flames. Timing, I guess.

Could have been just media speculation tied up with incompetence, but it really is strange.

[Dog Gone]

I was watching this on Fox. They got the fire out and all ended well.

Crud. We didn't even have time for 200 posters to suggest that Islamic terrorists are probably responsible.

[SheLion]

That's weird. They showed it on Fox, and around 1:00 est they had the fire out. It was by an apartment and a day care, so much have been the same one.

I didn't hear where it was, but sure sounds like the same tanker fire.

[Ingtar]

Islamic potholes?

[Quilla]

Obligatory 'just got out of shower' post.

[RightWhale]

Amazingly some drive their personal cars with the hood ornament tucked up under the back end of these rigs at highway speeds. At stop lights they sit with 9000 gallons of gasoline in their lap, edging closer and closer.

[Pete]

Crud. We didn't even have time for 200 posters to suggest that Islamic terrorists are probably responsible.

Islamic terrorists are probably responsible.

There's one.

[deport]

Crud. We didn't even have time for 200 posters to suggest that Islamic terrorists are probably responsible

Well, maybe the gasoline was headed for one of their C-stores... Reckon that would count toward a terrorist activity?

[Pete]

In #12 above, Islamic = Balsamic. Sorry.

[Cobra Scott]

Maybe what I was seeing as marked "live" was not really live.

[general_re]

Balsamic terrorists? I thought it said the truck was carrying gasoline...

[B-Chan]

Trinity Boulevard is the main thoroughfare serving the Citgo gasoline tank farm at the intersection of Trinity and North Collins Drive in Euless. Tankers travel that stretch of Trinity around the clock. This sounds like an accident, albeit a scary one.

B-chan

[lawdude]

Crud. We didn't even have time for 200 posters to suggest that Islamic terrorists are probably responsible."

I will do it then.

Since there is NO evidence of terrorist activity in this matter, it becomes apparent it is a terrorist act. I mean, after, all, they are stealth terrorists so there wouldn't be any evidence... Right?

Tin foil is being handed out in the line to the left!

[Deguello]

"Islamic terrorists are probably responsible."
They probably are, they just could not figure out how the locking dogs on the fifth wheel lock into the trailer's king pin...what dorks.

[Sweet_Sunflower29]

FBI warns of potential appartment bombings...One week later *Boom* goes an appartment in California, but it's not related...

FBI warns of potential tanker truck explosions...*Boom* goes this tanker truck in Texas...but I'm sure it's not related either...

Well, *I* trust the gu'mint to protect and keep us fully informed. :*)

NOT