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"MASSIVE BALL OF FIRE" AS TANKER REPORTEDLY EXPLODES ON THE I-465 NEAR INDIANAPOLIS.
WTHR ^ | 10/22/2009 | WTHR

Posted on 10/22/2009 8:11:08 AM PDT by gura

Tanker explodes on I-465 ramp

Indianapolis - A semi tanker has exploded on the southbound ramp from I-69 to I-465.

The fire from the vehicle is creating dark plumes of black smoke which can be seen for miles. A second alarm has been requested to the scene. Views from a tower cam show that the billboards are also on fire.

The accident is causing large back-ups on I-465. The crash is before the Allisonville Road exit.

Injuries are being reported. Witnesses reported hearing loud noises.

Witness Danielle Smith was on 465 headed to Keystone at the Crossing. In her rear-view mirror, she saw a wall of flames.

"I didn't know if it was a truck or a building or anything like that. All the traffic started slowing down," she said.

After the flames, Smith said she saw a lot of smoke. She wasn't sure what type of vehicle was involved.

SkyTrak Weather meteorologist Chuck Lofton says the small fires that broke out along the interstate were aided by the wind, which has picked up to 20 mph.


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Indiana; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: energy; indianapolis; propane; terrorism
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To: JimRed
Companies tend to put their ad money where it will give them the most exposure...

Oh, and I forgot a secondary benefit; fewer whiny liberals to deal with, as they wouldn't be caught dead dealing with a FOX NEWS advertiser!

41 posted on 10/22/2009 8:58:13 AM PDT by JimRed ("Hey, hey, Teddy K., hot enough down there today?" TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: All
http://www.wthr.com/#

42 posted on 10/22/2009 8:59:24 AM PDT by TSgt (I long for Norman Rockwell's America.)
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To: Hoosier Catholic Momma

I guess some folks think it’s just one big race track, huh?


43 posted on 10/22/2009 8:59:45 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: Hoosier Catholic Momma

I guess some folks think it’s just one big race track, huh?


44 posted on 10/22/2009 8:59:45 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: GoCards; Erik Latranyi
They gots lots of sponsors!!! lol

In spite of Obama's attempts to marginalize them. I wonder if he has staff looking at Fox and taking note of sponsors and then sending notes to them, especially those bailed out with federal money, suggesting they take their sponsorship elsewhere. Wouldn't put it past this crew to pull something like that. And if it happens, I would hope a whistleblower would come forth to reveal the Marxist's dirty tricks.

45 posted on 10/22/2009 8:59:47 AM PDT by CedarDave (FOX news:"Fair and balanced (no matter what the White House says) . We report because others won't.")
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To: BykrBayb

hiccup


46 posted on 10/22/2009 9:00:05 AM PDT by BykrBayb (Somewhere, my flower is there. ~ Þ)
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To: gura

The odds are it was an accident. But no question that the Muslims have an eye on these tankers as possible weapons.

But it seems to me that there wouldn’t be enough bang for the buck unless they stole one and exploded it in a crowded place or a building. Taking out an overpass causes a lot of trouble—the one I knew about in Yonkers took out an overpass on the Major Deegan into the city, and it took several years to replace. But that’s just an incredible nuisance, not a spectacular mass killing of the sort they like.


47 posted on 10/22/2009 9:03:17 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: CedarDave

You can get an idea of the audience by looking at the advertisers.

MSM newscasts, I understand, are sponsored by AARP, Wilfred Brimley’s diabetes company, “The Scooter Store” and Depends Undergarments.


48 posted on 10/22/2009 9:03:18 AM PDT by Never on my watch (The lunatics are in the White House - meet me on the dark side of the Moon.)
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To: BykrBayb

Well, it is near the Brickyard, LOL. I guess they all want to qualify for next year :)


49 posted on 10/22/2009 9:05:20 AM PDT by Hoosier Catholic Momma (Arkansas resident of Hoosier upbringing--Yankee with a southern twang)
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To: gura
GOODNESS GRACIOUS


50 posted on 10/22/2009 9:10:21 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: gura

This is the busiest interchange in the city, and the only way north around it is Allisonville Road.

This is going to be a nightmare...


51 posted on 10/22/2009 9:10:56 AM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I hate you.


52 posted on 10/22/2009 9:11:25 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: Lazamataz
Then I'm doing something right.

;)

53 posted on 10/22/2009 9:13:24 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Play the Race Card -- lose the game.)
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To: gura

“A worker at Washington Dulles International Airport has been arrested after running away from a security official who questioned the man about not wearing his security badge.”

MORON....
Badge challenges are part of working in an airport. If he’d just looked down and said. “OH CRAP!”, he’d have gotten written up and a small fine. Running was STUPID>


54 posted on 10/22/2009 9:14:29 AM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: BykrBayb

“I guess some folks think it’s just one big race track, huh?”

They don’t call it the 465 Motor Speedway for nothing...


55 posted on 10/22/2009 9:15:47 AM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: Cicero

They could set a bunch of them all over the country and have them all go off about the same time. That would cause a panic and make people nervous about driving around tankers.


56 posted on 10/22/2009 9:20:37 AM PDT by bakoj
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To: Right Wing Assault
You mean the owner is trying to make money?

Radio and television are not in the News and Entertainment business.

They are in the Advertising business. That is what pays the bills.

57 posted on 10/22/2009 9:22:16 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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To: tcrlaf

I assume you are local. My son is there, it’s national FFA convention week. They were traveling today to an Elk farm. Please ping me if you hear anything pertaining to the FFA kids....worried mom.


58 posted on 10/22/2009 9:22:16 AM PDT by buschbaby (Thin skinned crybabies have taken over America.)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Yeah, what’s up with that, saying “the” in front of a highway or interstate numbers? Reporters trying to get noticed by the LA market or something?


59 posted on 10/22/2009 9:26:55 AM PDT by NonValueAdded ("The Democrats scare me, the Republicans anger me." RJL)
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To: gura

Lemme guess - you spent a lot of time in CA somewhere along the way? Your adhoc title (not the same as the link) using the term “the I-465” rather than “I-465” gives you away. I’m not aware of anyone on the east coast who puts a “the” in front of Interstate numbers like Californians do. The Indiana news station certainly didn’t.


60 posted on 10/22/2009 9:38:23 AM PDT by MCH
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