Posted on 10/12/2007 11:19:43 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
Per LA County Fire....Northbound I-5 is collapsing at the scene of a major accident in the truck tunnel.
Incident: 3700 Type: Location: info as of: 10/12/2007 11:17:15 PM ADDITIONAL DETAILS 11:16PM 1039 MEDIA 11:14PM PER LACO FD ** PLS HAVE UNITS CLOSE DOWN ALL LNS - NB 5 AT BALBOA - THE BRIDGE IS STARTING TO COLAPSE 11:13PM 1039 56-S9 ADVISED ROLL 406 OR OTHER AVAILABLE UNIT TO ASSIST - 56-108 ENRT 11:13PM PLS ISSUE SIGALERT FOR THE NB 5 TK LNS TO 14 AND THE SB 5 TK LNS TO 14 - UNK DURATION AT THIS TIME - THANKS 11:08PM 146 ADV 1 PTY JUST CAME OUT OF THE TUNNEL AND HAS A BROKEN LEG AND NEEDS OXYGEN //1039 LACOFD W/INFO 11:07PM 1039 TO 98-S7 WILL HAVE 98-51 ROLL FOR THIS FROM THE OFFICE 11:03PM CT-PLS START FOR A HARD CLOSURE TO SHUT DOWN BOTH THE NB AND SB TK LNS 11:01PM DIVERT TRFC FM NB AND SB TK RT - 511 WILL SHUT DOWN NB TK LNS 11:01PM SEMI ON SB SIDE IS NOW ALSO ON FIRE - PLS ADV LACOFD 11:01PM PLS ADV LACOFD THERE ARE 2 ADDITIONAL O/TURNED VEHS // NB AND SB IM THE TK RT 10:59PM 3-5 SEMI FULLY INVLD - @ THE TUNNELS OF THE TRUCK ROUTE W/ACCESS ISSUES - PER LACOFD 10:59PM ANOTHER O/TURNED JSO 1020 BLOCKING ALL LANES AT TRUCK ROUT ALSO SIERRA HIGWAY 10:58PM 146 POSS PEOPLE STILL TRAPPED 10:57PM PLS GET UPDATED ETA FROM FD 10:57PM 146 PTY TRAPPED INSIDE 10:55PM THIS WILL BE SB TRUCK RD 10:55PM LACOFD 3-5 BIG RIGS FULLY INVOLVED 10:45PM PER RP SEMI TRK EXPLODED & OTHER VEH TC D W/TRK / PCS OF ENGINE ARE ON FIRE IN RDWY 10:44PM 1039 LACO FD 10:44PM RP ADVSED HE AND HIS GRANDMOTHER WERE DRIVING ON NB SIDE AND SAW A YEL BIG RIG EXPLODE, THE WHOLE SKY LIT UP 10:42PM YELLOW SEMI TRUCK ON FIRE, BLOCKING UNK LN RESPONDING OFFICERS STATUS 11:06PM CHP Unit On Scene 11:06PM CHP Unit On Scene 11:09PM CHP Unit Enroute 11:12PM CHP Unit On Scene 11:12PM CHP Unit Enroute 11:12PM CHP Unit Enroute 11:12PM CHP Unit Assigned 11:14PM CHP Unit Enroute
Heh, you haven't driven in Los Angeles, have you.
All lanes of traffic came to a stop and I was stuck on the Northbound 405 approaching Sunset Blvd. for 3 hours because of an accident... at 11:00 p.m. on a Friday night, no rain, nice evening really, except the three hour parking lot of course.
Ya’ll are being mischevious tonight.
How long before Lame Stream Media wakes up and reports this? I will guess 4 hours from now.
I don’t think so. One flys over where I work daily N-S 500’ up and scares wild animals away and brings wild women outside. Very loud engine. Louder than a tractor trailor on the 101 nearby at ground level. And going fast. I will observe further.
Oh Lord don’t remind me of the times I used to commute down their from N.Cali once a month for a therapy session for KV and not knowing the on/off ramps (lost) I would get on a freeway and just go man an ocean of cars, wow.
I did see Ronald Reagan’s entourage go by near and on the way to the Beverly Hills Hotel and so we flipped a U and followed them (I was young and dumb) we walked in and went up to the floor where all the SS had secured just like we belonged there and lil slow they relized what the hell is this woman and kid in a WC doing on a secure floor?
I think someone got into trouble for letting us meander around on that floor without ??? because when they kindly escorted us out I said tell Mr. President Hello and the two Secret Service guys told me to S**** their D***. OOPSIE.
I learned after that to ask first. So that worked much better.
The good ole days when we were young and dumb.
I am getting too tired to concentrate...have to find out the results tomorrow morning. Oh I forgot...It is tomorrow morning already!!!
LA Fire Department was still arriving at 1:29 a.m.
The coroner is arriving. There is one body unaccounted for. Not sure if that implies more than one body is already accounted for.
CHP is requesting that the Coroner’s Office assist with and report when they get the trucks pulled out of the tunnel.
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2:02AM PLS 1021 THE CORONER AND ADV THERE IS 1 BODY UNACCOUNTED FOR//REQ A REP FM THE CORONER S OFFICE TO HELP W/DOCUMENTATION AS THEY PULL OUT THE RIGS FROM THE TUNNEL - THANK YOU
1:57AM SO211 ADV W/511 NB 5 AT WELDON TURNING VEHS AROUND-BIG RIGS HAVING TROUBLE - TURNING AROUND 4WHEEL VEHS
1:40AM E43 97 CALGROVE/5-TAKING VEHS OFF W/WAY TO GET THEM OUT OF THE CLOSURE
1:38AM 145 ADV HE NEEDS A FLTBED FOR THE TRLR AND A BOOM FOR THE TK CAB AND PART OF THE TRLR-THIS IS A SET OF DOUBLES BLKING ALL LNS-PANORAMA COPIES
1:35AM PER S7 ADVISING TFC IS COMING IN AT 70 MPH AT HIGH SPEEDS - UNSAFE CONDITIONS FOR CHP TO 1023 - DOT WHEN YOU GO 1097 PLS ADVISE US AND WE WILL RUN BREAKS - ALTADENA CHP IS 1098 FOR OFFICER SAFETY REASONS
1:33AM 145 ADV STILL NEED A HD-SB TK RT JSO SIERRA HY OFR-PANORAMA TOW COPIES AND ENRT
1:29AM 56-102 INQUIRING BEST ACCESS FOR FIRE
1:28AM PLS CONFIRM IF THE CMS SIGNS ON THE 14 ARE ACTIVATED ADVISING OF THE CLOSURE PER 89-1 - THANKS
1:25AM E4 ADV HAVE ALL CMS SIGNS THAT ARE JNO 126 READ: SB 5 CLOSED USE 126
BTTT
LOL! Well laughing about your wonderful adventure. Imagine missing that fun, never knowing whether you could have gotten in or not.
However, that wouldn't have been fun being in the cross-hairs of the SS's anger and harsh comments.
UH Oh. Not good if the coroner has shown up.
It is going to take at least 12 hrs I estimate to pull out and record everything for the investigation mode.
I hope Ken had this thread put in Breaking/Announcments/Cali sidebar so all the folks here will have a heads up before venturing out.
What a huge mess.
Well I didn’t think their comment was very professional.
We met Gerald Ford in the exit line Kitchen of the Hilton Hotel in Concord Cali.
The SS (we asked ahead of time) was very accomadating and Mr. Ford was alerted to us being in the kitchen staff line so he stopped and shook KV’s hand and gave me a kind pat on the shoulder.
I won’t get into the Hillary on the Letterman show saying the right wingers never show up to her book signings and then us showing up the next day and her stopping the book signing getting up and doing a photo op with KV then I was interviewed by the Oregonian and said well she does have right wing FreeRepublicans .......
Scary part is they published our names and home town. She does look much better in real life (very pretty eyes but claw like hands) really short gal though.
Double yikes! LOL! That would have been wild.
The entire freeway was closed in both directions, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Firefighters were slowly making their way from the tunnel's north end to its south end trying to douse the flames, Hurd said
Thanks a bunch for the recap. I had started reading the entire thread but jumped to the end in hopes of getting the “Clift Notes” version.
You came through like a champ.
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5 South Tru at 14 North Vehicle Fire 10:41 PM
Thomas Guide Map Coordinates: Page 4641, Grid 7C
Yellow Semi Truck on Fire, Blocking Unknown Lane 10:42 PM
Message/Item Delivered LA County Fire Department 10:44 PM
Reporting Party Advsed He and His Grandmother Were Driving on North Side and Saw a Yellow Big Rig Explode, the Whole Sky Lit Up 10:44 PM
Per Reporting Party Semi Truck Exploded 10:45 PM
This Will Be South Truck Rd 10:55 PM
Lacofd 3-5 Big Rigs Fully Involved 10:55 PM
Please Get Updated ETA from Fire Department 10:57 PM
146 Party Trapped Inside 10:57 PM
146 Possible People Still Trapped 10:58 PM
3-5 Semi Fully Invld-@ the Tunnels of the Truck Route with Access Issues-Per Lacofd 10:59 PM
Another Overturned Just South of Location Requested Blocking All Lanes at Truck Rout Also Sierra Higway 10:59 PM
Divert Trfc from North and South Truck Right-511 Will Shut Down North Truck Lanes 11:01 PM
Semi on South Side is now Also on Fire-Please Advise Lacofd 11:01 PM
Please Advise Lacofd There Are 2 Additional Overturned Vehicles // North and South Im the Truck Right 11:01 PM
Caltrans-Please Start for a Hard Closure to Shut Down Both the North and South Truck Lanes 11:03 PM
CHP Unit on Scene 11:06 PM
Message/Item Delivered to 98-S7 Will Have 98-51 Roll for this from the Office 11:07 PM
146 Advise 1 Party Just Came Out of the Tunnel and Has a Broken Leg and Needs Oxygen //1039 Lacofd with Info 11:08 PM
Message/Item Delivered 56-S9 Advised Roll 406 or Other Available Unit to Assist-56-108 En Route 11:13 PM
Please Issue Sigalert for the North 5 Truck Lanes to 14 and the South 5 Truck Lanes to 14-Unknown Duration at this Time-Thanks 11:13 PM
Per LA County Fire Department ** Please Have Units Close Down All Lanes-North 5 at Balboa-the Bridge is Starting to Colapse 11:14 PM
Message/Item Delivered Media 11:16 PM
Please Conf Where Wvly Should Respond—They Will Be Travelling Under the Bridge at Balboa 11:18 PM
LA County Fire Department Wants All Lanes Closed Down South 14 at San Fernando Rd As Well-They Are Having Problems with Bridge 11:19 PM
Affirm All Lanes =-Main Portion 11:20 PM
56-406 En Route to Shut Down All North Lanes Just South of Balboa / ETA 3 11:21 PM
Sigalert Issued on the Blue Freq-Sig Log 3813 11:24 PM
Trfc Shut Down South 5 at Weldon // Will Hold Trfc Due to Heavy Smoke 11:25 PM
98-51 En Route to Shut Down North 5 All Lanes-Diverting Tfc to 118 * Please Roll Caltrans for Hard Closure-6 Lanes Here-ETA When Avail-Thanks 11:27 PM
Lacofd Supervisor Picket Request Ing South 5 at Calgrove All Lanes Shut Down,, and North 5 at Balboa 11:27 PM
Wants to Know If Anyone is Coming to Get Them off of the Bridge 11:30 PM
Reporting Party is Frightened Because of Multiple Explosions and Parts of the Bridge Are Falling 11:30 PM
Reporting Party is 1St Vehicle Stopped South 14 to North 5 11:30 PM
Request 2 Units to Divert Trfc from South 5 at Calgrove Onto the Old Rd //req Caltrans with Hard Closure Here 11:32 PM
Message/Item Delivered Mait Sgt Karol-Will Be En Route 11:33 PM
89-3 En Route to Shut Down South 14-25 Mins ETA 11:33 PM
Per 56-406 Traffic Still Has Access from 210 to North 5 11:35 PM
Message/Item Delivered Mobile Road Enforcement Sgt Bower Will Attempt to Get a Couple of Mobile Road Enforcement to Respond 11:36 PM
406 Will Respond to Close 210 to Take Traffic off Possible at Yarnell 11:39 PM
CHP Unit on Scene 11:41 PM
E49 Running Break now to Divert Tfc off at Calgrove 11:44 PM
80 Other Vehicles Are Stopped Behind Reporting Party 11:47 PM
Reporting Party is in Chry Concord Blue 4 D in the #2 Lane Party is Right Before the Curve 11:47 PM
CHP Unit on Scene 11:51 PM
Per 78-S6 at Ofc-Scvso is Implementing Their Emergency Plan-Will Be at Intersections-Sierra Hwy/san Fernando and the Old Rd/calgrove 11:54 PM
Per David / Several More Explosion Are Occuring now Fire is now at the Top of the Bridge Area 11:55 PM
Also Panorama Tow Avail With Low Boy and Hd S If Needed 12:01 AM
US Highway Express Truck Lines Involved D,, They Rolled Panorama Tow with Heavy Duty, They Have 5 Min ETA, Conf They Are Able to Responding now, or to Standby 12:01 AM
89-3 is 97 South 14 at Placerita-Running Break to Shut Down at San Fernando 12:01 AM
Message/Item Delivered on-Call Chief Capt Aubrey 12:01 AM
E49 Advised Caltrans is 97 South 5 at Calgrove-Setting Up for Hard Closure now 12:03 AM
Per 98-S7 They Are Setting Up the Closure now-and Per 98-51 Caltrans Truck with Sign Board is North 5 from Buena Vista now 12:04 AM
Message/Item Delivered Ross Baker, En Route with Hd Xs 3 12:04 AM
Panorama Tow En Route With 1 Hd, and Will Start Addtl Hd and 1 Low Boy for now, Can Unit Advise Access 12:05 AM
406 Has a Break Started at Polk to Divert Traffic off West 210 at Yarnell 12:07 AM
89-3 Request LASO to Shut Down San Fernando On Ramp to South 14 12:08 AM
Message/Item Delivered Scvso-Will Also Shut Down San Fernando On Ramp to South 14 12:09 AM
LAPD Inc#34 / Will Shut Down Roxford On Ramp to North 5 12:10 AM
Per S7 Transportation Management Center Please Have the Sign Board North 5 at Exit 154 (osborne)-Read 5 Closed Diverting Tfc off to the 118 Freeway-Thanks 12:10 AM
145 Advise Sierra Hy Truck Right On Ramp to North 5 Needs to Be Closed 12:11 AM
Lacofd is Also Request Ing Calgrove On Ramp to South 5 Closed ASAP
” jumped to the end in hopes of getting the “Clift Notes” version. “
Better chance of finding out by reading (catching up on) this thread than by waiting for our glorious ‘news’ sources...
F&F (Fluff&Folly) has mentioned this event a couple of times in passing, without any detail - before going on to their regularly scheduled blather.....
Some self righteous islamic loonie wouldn’t care how many people he takes with him, even one in his mind would ensure paradise.
The bigger thing would be to take down the bridge with all the economic loss and turmoil that the collapse would cause.
A direct attack against any PART of the US would be an attack in his jihad against ‘the great satan’. Any civilians killed would just be extra gravy so to speak.
i so miss the KFI line up of Bill Handel/ Rush/Skip Dr. Laura for Hannity/John & Ken since I moved from there.
I’ll bet most TV and Radio stations are run by a robot/PC setup and the only person in the station is the Czech cleaning lady!
Also with TV it’s: No Pictures = No Story
Oh no! This is horrible. Prayers up.
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