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Posted on 09/23/2005 5:08:41 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch
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To: COBOL2Java
It's against the law to smoke on the bus, isn't it?
Maybe there was another cause?
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:43:36 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: Zacs Mom
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:45:49 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: metmom
Sorry, I am half awake..I should have been talking about diesal fuel tanks.
To: metmom
To: RedBloodedAmerican
If there wasn't a rule before about not storing oxygen tanks under the seating compartment, there should have been.
How tragic
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:49:02 AM PDT
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
To: InvisibleChurch
ABC radio reporting possibly 20 dead.
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:50:30 AM PDT
by
doug from upland
(Doug from Upland - FR troublemaker since 5/97)
To: InvisibleChurch
07:38 AM CDT on Friday, September 23, 2005 A passenger bus carrying evacuees from the Houston area exploded into flames near Dallas and there are as many as 20 deaths and 25 injuries.
The bus was carrying elderly evacuees from Bellaire, according to the Dallas Fire Department.
“There were 45 souls on the bus ... at this point we believe we have about half accounted for,” Dallas County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Don Peritz. He said early indications were that a mechanical problem caused the blaze and that passengers’ oxygen tanks caught fire.
The bus was engulfed with flames, causing a 17-mile backup on a freeway that was already heavily congested with evacuees from the Gulf Coast. By early Friday morning, the bus was reduced to a blackened, burned-out shell, surrounded by numerous police cars and ambulances.
“The early indications are this is a mechanical issue,” Peritz said. “The driver did survive the accident. It’s my understanding he went back ont he bus several times to try to evacuate people.”
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:50:31 AM PDT
by
michigander
(The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
To: COBOL2Java
OMG, they let someone on oxygen SMOKE?
To: michigander
Oh Dear God! This country is being brought to its knees in so many ways.
To: Bahbah
I did hear it was a bus of seniors so the oxygen thing might just be right...
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:55:41 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(I wished the buck stopped here as I could use a few.)
To: doberville
OMG, they let someone on oxygen SMOKE? I was in Nevada this summer, and I saw quite a few folks dragging their oxygen tanks around with them. On one occasion a fellow tried to light up (smoking is permitted in the casinos). Thank God, a security guy, seeing the oxygen tank, asked him to put it out.
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:56:09 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(Many Democrats are not weak Americans. But nearly all weak Americans are Democrats.)
To: nuconvert
To: michigander
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posted on
09/23/2005 5:59:43 AM PDT
by
Halls
(Terri Schindler Schiavo was murdered legally in our country, NEVER FORGET!!!)
To: Halls
To: InvisibleChurch
24 confirmed dead. I'm in the D/FW area and a local traffic reporter was on the scene pretty earlier. He reported people breaking the windows trying to get out but at the time he couldn't report if anyone was left on the bus.
To: janetjanet998
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posted on
09/23/2005 6:03:08 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Praying for those in the path of Rita)
To: janetjanet998
I just received a pager message that agrees with that number. How awful.
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posted on
09/23/2005 6:05:02 AM PDT
by
Glenn
(What I've dared, I've willed; and what I've willed, I'll do!)
To: nuconvert
Was it carrying patient(s) with an oxygen requirement and some moron lit a cig?
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posted on
09/23/2005 6:05:17 AM PDT
by
RJS1950
(The rats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
To: InvisibleChurch
Let me guess...George W. Bush started the fire, right? Houston's white mayor? Can't wait to see the media hysterical anger towards Bush and anyone from TX.
To: janetjanet998
TV Station Reports 24 Deaths POSTED: 7:06 am CDT September 23, 2005
UPDATED: 7:59 am CDT September 23, 2005
DALLAS -- As many as 20 nursing home patients were killed early Friday when a busload of elderly Hurricane Rita evacuees from the Houston caught fire then was rocked by a series of explosions on gridlocked Interstate 45, a Dallas County Sheriff's spokesman said.
The bus loaded with 43 passengers was engulfed with flames, causing a 17-mile backup on a freeway that was already heavily congested with evacuees from the Gulf Coast.
"Deputies were unable to get everyone off the bus," spokesman Don Peritz said. "We believe it's gonna be closer to 20 fatalities."
A Dallas County Medical Examiner told KXAS-TV that they are expecting as many as 24 fatalities.
By early Friday morning, the bus was reduced to a blackened, burned-out shell, surrounded by numerous police cars and ambulances.
Peritz said it appears a mechanical problem aboard the bus caused a fire that reached oxygen tanks belonging to the elderly passengers.
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posted on
09/23/2005 6:07:20 AM PDT
by
michigander
(The Constitution only guarantees the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.)
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