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Bus explodes carrying evacuees (24 dead, Fox News)
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Posted on 09/23/2005 5:08:41 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
DEATHS: Bus carrying Hurricane Rita evacuees has exploded on Interstate 45 near Dallas...
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: burningbus; bus; buses; bushsfault; dallas; evacuees; explosion; hurricanerita; rip; rita
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To: TomGuy
To: cripplecreek
Because "explode" is more sensationalist.
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:32:01 AM PDT
by
mlc9852
To: OXENinFLA
To: OXENinFLA
the speculation is that the bus's brake may have caught fire -
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:32:14 AM PDT
by
Zacs Mom
(Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
To: InvisibleChurch
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:32:41 AM PDT
by
DocRock
(Osama said, "We love death, the U.S. loves life, that is the main difference between us.")
To: psychopuppy
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:33:11 AM PDT
by
Zacs Mom
(Proud wife of a Marine! ... and purveyor of "rampant, unedited dialogue")
To: Zacs Mom
Those poor people. So tragic. :( "Sparks from the breaks ignited gas tanks. Oxygen may have been on board." per FOX
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:33:16 AM PDT
by
publana
(yes, I checked the preview box without previewing)
To: COBOL2Java
I've seen it too. There's nothing like a emphysema patient on oxygen lighting up.
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:33:37 AM PDT
by
newzjunkey
(CA: Stop union theft for political agendas: YES on Prop 75!)
To: InvisibleChurch
FoxNews:
Brakes sparking may have caused the initial fire.
Half of the 45 on board have NOT been accounted for, yet (unconfirmed).
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:33:45 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: publana
"Sparks from the breaks ignited gas tanks"
This usually occurs when gasoline is leaking from the tank.
To: InvisibleChurch
As bad as it has become for the poor evacuees --- there is no stampede, panic, riot or mass pandemonium, as we would see under similar circumstance is much of the rest of the world......
All cultures are equal?......I don't believe so...
Semper Fi
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:34:49 AM PDT
by
river rat
(You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
To: InvisibleChurch
FoxNews:
WFAA in Dallas reporting 20 killed on the bus.
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:37:25 AM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: R. Scott
Or, maybe there actually *was* an explosion.
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:38:36 AM PDT
by
zook
To: TomGuy
I heard early reports indicate 20 died out of the 45 people on board.
To: mlc9852
Could be, or it might be that when a fire occurs in an oxygen rich environment, it burns so violently that it seems like an explosion. Or maybe there were more than one oxygen container on board and when the heat hit them after the fire started, they ruptured.
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:39:16 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: InvisibleChurch
O2 cylinders in the storage underneath.
To: COBOL2Java
Sometimes bad things happen to people that aren't their fault.
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:40:48 AM PDT
by
TN4Liberty
(American... conservative... southern.... It doesn't get any better than this.)
To: zook
Well, there IS an intact shell of the bus. It doesn't appear that the structure of the bus was blown outwards.
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:42:37 AM PDT
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: metmom
A fire that started from the gasoline containers could easily have generated enough heat to cause a catastrophic failure in any oxygen cylinder that was on the bus.
To: TomGuy
CNN International is reporting 20 may have died.
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:43:31 AM PDT
by
Cardhu
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