Explosion in DC

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[L_Von_Mises]

Just heard on the radio that there was an explosion in DC near Wisconsin Avenue - one person hurt. Police spokesman had no information as to cause. Bomb squad at the scene. Site was a parking garage in Friendship Heights. No additional details.

[SMASH IMPERIALIST LIBERALISM!!]

ruptured underground gas line? I seem to recall that G-Town had a number of explosions due to that a few eyars ago.

There was a gas line explosion at virtually the same location in Friendship Heights about a year ago.

[ArrogantBustard]

Beanies and Weenies?

[nevergore]

"Come on we have fellow freepers in DC......no joking until we know this is nothing... "

I know nothing now, does this mean I can joke?

NeverGore :^)

[Redcloak]

AP Now reporting...

Garage Explosion Forces Evacuations in Northwest

Associated Press
Friday, July 12, 2002; 3:03 PM

Part of a Northwest Washington neighborhood is being 
evacuated this afternoon, following a fire and explosion 
in a garage.

A 21-year-old man is in serious condition at Washington 
Hospital Center. Witnesses said he was on fire.


This happened inside a garage at 5225 Wisconsin Ave. NW. 
Apparently, the garage attendants heard an explosion, saw a 
vehicle on fire and tried to put it out. A doctor in a nearby
 building tried to help the injured man.


Wisconsin Avenue is shut between Harrison Street and Western 
Avenue, while police, fire and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
 and Firearms comb the area.


Metro says the Jenifer Street escalators to the Red Line 
subway station are closed, though the other entrances remain 
open, and service isn't affected. There are also some bus 
detours.

© 2002 The Associated Press

[jriemer]

AB,

Footlongs?

jriemer

[aristeides]

Good chance the injured man was in a car that exploded.

[Semper Paratus]

Al Gore's been talking about "letting 'er rip".

[AdA$tra]

If it was here in Kansas, I would say meth lab!

[Shermy]

Yep, all aflame? Sounds like a hit. If we were in the middle east, the first thought might be an "own goal."

[DainBramage]

Beanies and Weenies?

[Thane_Banquo]

Dick Gephardt: " I'm trying to think, and nothings happening"

Should read, "poof!"

As in, the inverse of cogito ergo sum: "I do not think. Therefore, I am not."

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Know what? Maybe when Homeland Security discontinues to be a JOKE...I'll stop making jokes. Its the only way myself and alot of others keep our sanity about the 1/2 a$$ed, BS way that "Homeland Security" is being conducted. No offense is meant by anyone.

[Shermy]

Any news about Katherine Smith of Tennessee License Scandal fame? I can't find any.

[Democratic_Machiavelli]

The address indicates it isn't close to any major monuments. Betcha it's either a jumpy terrorist ("red wire? yellow wire?") or a true accident.

Then again, I've only been to DC once and didn't stay long. Any who lives there got any more info?

[andy_card]

5225 Wisconsin is a smallish office building, six or seven stories. My dentist works there. Maybe Al Qaeda was trying to steal his nitrous oxide.

[philosofy123]

With Ted Kennedy? Ted's head blew off?

[Shermy]

A little more info from local Channel four:

Vehicle Explodes In Friendship Heights

WASHINGTON -- A van exploded in a parking garage in the Friendship Heights area of the District just after 2 p.m. Friday. It happened in a garage near the intersection of Wisconsin Avenue and Jennifer Street in northwest.

The D.C. fire department and police department are on the scene.

Parking lot attendants told News4 they heard an explosion and found a man standing next to the van. He was on fire. The victim -- a 21-year-old man -- has been taken to the Washington Hospital Center.

A two-square-block area around the explosion has been sealed off to traffic.

[1Old Pro]

Barney Frank??

SOLOMON BARNEY FRANK INITIATES COVERAGE ON JOHNSON AND JOHNSON AS A "TENDER HOLD"

[DocCincy]

Nadler, against all better judgment, ate the 'wafer-thin' mint.

[ArrogantBustard]

A head. Just what ol' Barney wants. heh heh heh...

Barney loves the footlong weenies.
All the weenies of the World!
Long and skinny, short and fat,
Lots of weenies, look at that!
Barney loves the weenies of the World!