CA: I-5 collapses Newhall Pass

Scanner | 10/12/07 | me

[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

[lainie]

Our spaghetti
Who art in the colander
Hallowed be thy sauce
Thy serving come
Thy strands be wrung
On forks as they are on spoons
Give us this day our daily meatball
And forgive us our starchiness
As we forgive those who are starchy against us
And lead us not into Kraft parmesan
But deliver us from Chef Boy-Ar-Dee
For thine is the garlic
And the onion and the bay leaves
For ever and ever.
Ramen

hehe..haven't thought about that in ages!

[pollywog]

this is unreal!! un-civilized Americans!!

[lainie]

Everyone's talking about alternate routes... Metrolink is gonna be BIIZ-ZEE. Haven't heard anyone talking about Rt. 2 over Angeles Crest yet. The idea of having to drive from Magic Mountain, over to Fillmore, and back easterly on the 118 sounds like such a nightmare.

Speaking of nightmares...Victorville.. Hwy. 395 at mm 33 is closed. Accident w/fatality.

[Spktyr]

That’s why when I lived in SoCal, my preferred traffic weapon was a motorcycle. :)

[BurbankKarl]

I agree...I guess I wont be going to my nephews hockey game tomorrow in Valencia.

Hope they clear it up by Halloween though!

[yorkie]

>>Hope they clear it up by Halloween though!<<

Geeze - why don’t you just go ‘Trick or Treatin’ in your own neighborhood? ;-)

[BurbankKarl]

my nephews are up there...

[yorkie]

Karl, I was joking.

I should remember to be more serious.

Sorry for the misunderstandig. And, thank you so much for keeping us up to date on the tunnel crash. They just said on the news that it should be open by Tuesday - but I don’t know how that would be possible.

I hope you get to spend some quality time with your nephews, real soon!

[BurbankKarl]

Coroner requesting light trucks...guess they are inside the tunnel now

3 now dead

[lainie]

I had a feeling that number would go up. :( rest their souls.

What a situation.

Time to pick a network for news. KABC or KCBS?

[BurbankKarl]

They found some cars in there too...that cant be good

[MEG33]

I BH to please point out which of my comments was so polluting..Never a reply..I am bereft.

He is probably just lonely and needs attention.

;o)

[MEG33]

I have now seen a longer video and it will be miraculous if more victims are not in there.

[BurbankKarl]

Some more Coroner people going...they found four tractors entangled and on top of each other

[MEG33]

I don’t envy the searchers..

[Global2010]

Crap.

Let’s hope that is all.

[Global2010]

Praying for a Miracle bump.

[MEG33]

Me,too.

[La Enchiladita]

Haven’t been able to follow news this evening... just catching up to the story, which I see is still unfolding as bodies have been recovered.

This disaster is on a level with the MN bridge collapse, IMO.

[Blue Highway]

I meant to go to the Ronald Reagan Museum while I was out in California. I was trying to find the nearest Lowes hardware store from Thousand Oaks, and it was in Simi Valley. I took 23 north and then whatever it changed into and I saw the exit for Ronald Reagan Parkway with signs for the museum. I looked it up online and wanted to spend a day there but never had a chance to head back that way. The old Air Force One plane would be great to see.