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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...
okay, just what were you up to here??
NBC739 in San Diego has a live video stream. It is pretty graphic though as it is raw video.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/videostream/11724377/detail.html
I just turn to local news WHOAAAAAA
I smellllll big lawsuit against Both Metrolink and Union pacific JUST SAYIN
Ride Metrolink from time to time (not that line).
Can visualize teh interior of that right now and it isn’t a pretty image.
Thanks, Kyla.
I’m watching the FOX stream that was posted on a previous post. It looks just awful.
Injured are being triaged onto green, yellow and red blankets. Red of course, being the most critically injured.
This is Chatsworth near the 2nd tunnel....UP freight into Metrolink passenger train...15 fatals, 80 need transport.....a big clusterf*c* in the NE Valley.
All LAPD, CHP, LAFD resources taxed.
Oh wow. Thanks, Karl.
God bless our first responders too, this will be a rough one for them.
Early reports that UP had a green light eastbound....hence the pancaking of cars behind it (faster speed) and the Metrolink ran a red leaving WB from the Chatsworth station.
on bars now with tone :-(.
Just heard - “back up” of freight cars still in the tunnel. This could of been much worse by a minute or two. Prayers up.
PRAYERS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!
At least 2 people were killed -- and scores injured -- Friday afternoon when a Metrolink commuter train crashed into a freight train in Chatsworth.
Reporting overhead in Sky 9, Gary Lineberry said it was a "real mess. And it's a bad one...no doubt about that."
The freight train looked accordioned. Several cars on the freight train derailed. Several cars of the commuter train overturned.
At least two people were killed, according to the LA Sheriff's Department. Casualties are expected to mount.
Tim Lynn reporting overhead in Chopper 2 said the crash was "head on." He added, "We saw people crawling out of the train trying to escape flames. The fire department immediately got into rescue mode."
Just looking at the aftermath Lynn said, "this crash had to be horrific."
The crash occured near Topanga Boulevard about 4:40 p.m.
The most serious injuries are believed to be in the front car of the Metrolink train.
Some people were believed trapped.
Rescue teams were on hand to extricate at least three people from the overturned cars, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department.
The Los Angeles Police Department called a citywide tactical alert in response to the crash.
http://cbs2.com/local/Metrolink.Crash.Chatsworth.2.816434.html
Upper level --
no krylon?
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