BREAKING: Explosion and fire at strip mall in Waukegan, IL

[doxieone]

Source: Lake County News/CNN

Several fire departments respond to blast, fire on Grand Avenue

February 28, 2008
NEWS-SUN STAFF REPORT
WAUKEGAN -- Firefighters from several departments were battling what appeared to be an explosion and fire at 1926 Grand Ave., a shopping plaza home to Tuxedo World, Cleopatra’s Unisex Hair Salon, Cellular Concepts and a travel agency. Authorities reported there are injuries.

Authorities have closed Grand Avenue between Martin and Lewis avenues and crews from People’s Gas are on the scene because firefighters fear a gas leak.


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Read more: http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/817929,WA28_BLAST_WEB_022808.article

[eleny]

1. Waukeegan

[doxieone]

3. thanks for info

[tkmorris]

13. Umm, when I lived there.........

We spelled it Waukegan. Pronounced it with the long "e", but spelled using only one.

:shrug:

[papau]

21. true - Jack Benny's home town - named a junior high school after him

[Kikosexy2]

20. Sounds like Georgie...

order terra to scare us...gotta pass that Spying Bill quick...more terra to come....hope it wasn't a terrorist attack...hope all are not badly injured...prayers...

[babylonsister]

Expected injuries, too. nt

[Drifter]

2. Wait for it ....

Have they ruled out Terra-ism yet ?

Cheers
Drifter

[krispos42]

16. Looks like it was terrah-ism!

Megdi Hussain, 29, who owns a dollar store across the street, said he heard an explosion at about 12:30 p.m., and the windows of his store simultaneously blew out.

It's another Hussein! Or Hussain! Ay-rabs! Moose-limbs! OMFG!!!! Terrah!


"When in danger, when in doubt, run in circle, scream and shout!"

[flamingyouth]

4. Link:

An explosion blew out three adjacent stores in a business district in north suburban Waukegan at Grand and Lewis Avenues about 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Emergency workers were on the scene.

Emergency crews from several Lake County suburbs were on the scene of the reported explosion and fire at the shopping mall in Waukegan.

The incident occurred about 12:30 p.m. at 1926 W. Grand Ave. in Waukegan, according to police and fire officials.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-waukegan-explosion-webfeb29,0,7829128.story

[mth44sc]

5. How long ago did this happen

since there doesn't appear to be a puff of smoke or any real signs of fire at all?

[Nickster]

18. From what I understand, a gas explosion like that snuffs itself out pretty quickly.

[KnaveRupe]

6. It's because the Dems didn't renew the Protect America Act,

with the retroactive telcomm immunity.

Curse you, traitorous Democrats! It's all your fault!!!!

[Catshrink]

7. Birthplace of Jack Benny

I used to live about 10 miles from good old Waukegan, IL.

[endarkenment]

8. Duck Tape Alert! Be Afraid! Terraists!

People’s Gas? That sounds communist to me.

[RamboLiberal]

9. Photo from Chicago Tribune

[Robbien]

10. Don't know exactly why a gas line explosion in a strip mall is making national news

Sure people were injured, but national news?

[Roland99]

11. FUD factor. Simple as that.

Fear
Uncertainty
Doubt.

[The Stranger]

15. They need to throw in a missing blonde or anything having to do with Britney Spears.

[Parche]

12. ITS AL-KIDA ITS AL-KIDA

I KNOW IT I KNOW IT
RUN FOR COVER

:sarcasm: :sarcasm: :grr:
:hi:

[KansDem]

14. Quick! What children's book is Bush reading now??!!!

I mean NOW!!!

[pleah]

17. It's them tururist unisex hair cutters!

:sarcasm:

[hendo]

19. Damn..

I used to live near there.

[reggie the dog]

22. we had a gas explosion today that killed

2 people in Lyon, and injured 35.

[Ferry Fey]

23. Waukegan and Lyon explosions: a whole lot of "coincidences"

There's a posting at Rigorous Intuition that finds a lot in common between today's two blasts.

Two shopping area explosions today.

One in Lyon, France, 12:30 PM GMT. in a shopping area. There'd been a gas leak, it is felt that workers may have punctured the pipe, setting off the blast.

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSL28648448

Other in a mall at Waukegan, Illinois, believed to be a gas explosion, 6:30 PM GMT.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-waukegan-explosion-webfeb29,0,7829128.story

Half past the hour, shopping area, believed to be gas.


Lyon

41.23 N latitude, former hill fort

Lyon was founded as a Roman colony in 43 BCE by Munatius Plancus, a lieutenant of Caesar, on the site of a Gaulish hill-fort settlement called Lugdunon—from the Celtic sun god Lugus ('Light', cognate with Old Irish Lugh, Modern Irish Lú) and dúnon (hill-fort). Lyon was first named Lugdunum meaning the "hill of lights" or "the hill of crows". Lug was equated by the Romans to Mercury.

Lyon is the préfecture (capital) of the Rhône département, and also the capital of the Rhône-Alpes région.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyon

Waukegan

42.22 N. latitude, former fort

Waukegan, first visited by Pere Marquette in 1673, is one of the oldest communities in Illinois. The city started as a French trading post and Potawatomi Indian settlement known as "Little Fort". Records dating back to 1829 tell of a treaty signed by the Potawatomis in which they ceded all of their land in this area to the Federal Government.

Little Fort became the County Seat of Government in 1841 by virture of its population, replacing Libertyville

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waukegan

Latitude, fort, center of area government

http://www.rigorousintuition.ca/board/viewtopic.php?t=16426

So the Waukegan and Lyon explosions share this: both happened at half past the hour on the same day, in a shopping area, were believed to be a gas explosion, are within one degree of latitude of each other, were towns that started out as forts, and are a center of area government.


That's pretty strange.