LA County Coroner mass casualty tents.... This was one of the Homeland Security grants since 9/11
Posted on 09/12/2008 4:48:21 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Metro Link train in flames...dozens of ambulances en-route to the scene...
What Metrolink is trying to do is shift liability....to Connex, the company that provides the engineers and conductors.
The reporters were shocked that the PR lady just blurted it out with no warning.
LA County Sheriff is reporting 23 dead now
Crap
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Ya know, a person can’t help but have respect for the police. (Cause if you don’t, you might get tasered).
And I honestly do respect them, they have a hard job.
But alot of folks have hard jobs, not just police.
Sometimes this “saluting their fallen brothers” stuff seems over the top.
Don’t see garbagemen saluting their fallen brothers. Don’t see doctors. Don’t see lawyers... (well, maybe lawyers do)
I mean, this was an accident. They didn’t die chasing illegal immigrants or something.
That honor line stuff started after 9/11 in New York. I can’t remember ever seeing it in L.A., and then the LA Sheriffs did one after the Metrolink Glendale crash.
I notice LAPD Chief Bratton was out of town again.....another speaking engagement or job interview....trying to be Homeland Security chief in the Obama administration.
23? I last heard 18. And the Metrolink Engineer ran a red light...?
Chatsworth — A Metrolink spokeswoman said today that a Metrolink engineer apparently made a mistake that caused the head-on collision between a commuter train and a freight train, killing at least 23 people.
Los Angeles city officials expressed fear that the lower level of a smashed double-deck passenger car will reveal additional fatalities once rescuers get in it for the first time later today.
I suppose in desperate and troubled times it gives people comfort and that is a good thing.
I just have the hair on the back of my neck tingle a bit when all this “police are superhumans and are always right and you must OBEY!” stuff comes out.
For a variety of reasons, I have the same thoughts.
My father was a Los Angeles County Sheriff, worked in the Special Inforcement Bureau among other departments. I do respect the job they have to do. I do understand that it permeates their whole life. I know they pay a certain price, so I am supportive.
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What the heck is this spam????
now its 24.
I get LAFD pages on my cellphone...
I think that is from the Connex website...
LA County Coroner mass casualty tents.... This was one of the Homeland Security grants since 9/11
Reading this gave me goosebumps, ZGuy. It is a unique feeling when you have a close call like that. I read in your later posts that Gary, and also Bob, are okay. What a disaster, though, for those who did not make or are in critical condition.
Thanks for the post. Some folks still don’t know that the Metrolink Engineer and Conductors are contracted out to Veolia Transportation.
Your post was interesting. I’m sure Veolia provides hundreds of thousands if not millions of hours in labor each year with few incidents. One of these accidents sure delivers a black eye though.
The trains aren’t going that fast there. I take it twice everyday. At that stretch the train goes 30 or so. The train would have left the Chatsworth station about 2 minutes prior to the crash.
Oh no, so sorry to hear that.....
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