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
Just fine, thanks!! And you?
Thanks
If they have to tear down that section and rebuild it, which they will almost certainly have to do, all meat, produce and dairy products are going to become real pricey and in short supply for everyone from there to San Diego.
As in Yellow freight lines, or yellow, like a Ryder/rental truck?
Just curious and not jumping to conclusions yet.
12:03PM 200 * MEDIA REFUSING TO CLR SCENE ADVS NOT CRIME SCENE WILL MAINTAIN POSITION
heh
If they weren't so lame in general, I'd be cheering the media for that.
Time for the politicians to do something important and get this fixed ASAP....the Terminator needs to terminate the bottleneck!
What could possibly be burning that hot for this long, anyway?
They’re lame. Face it...we’re the best here. ;)
If that report it true, thanks be to God. And prayers for the person unaccounted for.
Last night when I went to bed, there was a report of one person missing. This morning they’re reporting two dead.
Oh gosh. Thanks for the info.
You have to visit the Ronald Reagan museum off Madera Rd. in Simi Valley. It’s beyond being a library anymore. Men take their sweethearts there to avoid going shopping. And still end up with sweethearts reading and studying everything there for 5 hours??
I was stuck on the 5 for a little over two hours last night due to this. I managed to arrive in the area soon after the accident. In fact, I was a little over 1 mile from my exit (Roxford) parked with my car off trying not to fall asleep. I witnessed countless emergency response vehicles trying to maneuver through the mess of cars on the 5 and 405 merger. They had us all divert off at Roxford, which was fortunate for me as it was my exit and I was out of gas.
Yep, radio just said CNN is quoting CHP in saying two dead. That’s terrible.
IMO, is major sections need repairing, still look for this to be closed down no more than a month.
If this were a regular project, it would be 7-10 months before anything else would be done.
On a side not, just had rain by me this morning and it of course has traumatized my 4 pound guard dog who did not want to have any brush what so ever with moisture that did not come from himself.
You would thing the sky was falling with hailstones made of fire the way my dog looked at the sky when I was taking the little pest out.
I think we are getting close to our major weather threads again Earnest... :-)
I have a feeling my brother’s Metrolink train from Saugus to LA will be packed on Monday.....actually, they are already packed...but it will be standing room only
Sure and he will have to leave at least a half hour earlier to make the train and handle the extra people.
Jeez, I fly into Burbank and drive to Lancaster/Palmdale several times a month. I’ll be back in that area in a week’s time. I guess I’ll have to find another way out there...
I guess the herd at work on Monday will be sort of thin.
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