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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-05-07 09:23 AM
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DISASTER in Everett, Massachusetts--forty cars in flames, homes burned to the ground
This is just terrible. Apparently a gasoline tanker truck, going like a bat out of hell, failed to navigate that Sweetser Circle in Everett, and flipped, gas went everywhere, forty cars went up in flames and a few homes burnt to the ground in record time.

Can you imagine waking up to find your house on fire, and the house next door, and you're in a triple decker, and it's QUICK--GET OUT!

There are no links yet...just initial reports.

Merry friken Christmeas...

You have to wonder what a few jerks with INTENT could do with a few tanker trucks...!
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-05-07 09:30 AM
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1. A pic and a link
Edited on Wed Dec-05-07 09:31 AM by MaineDem


More here:http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/12/05/Scenes_from_the_Everett_fire/
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-05-07 09:33 AM
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3. The real miracle was the fact that no one got hurt...
The most miraculous thing is that none of those people were hurt," he said. "No one got hurt, not a scratch. The truckdriver hurt his thumb, I understand."
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-05-07 09:37 AM
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4. Yup, unbelievable!
Thank goodness.
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Mass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-05-07 09:31 AM
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2. They were apparently lucky. On the other side of the Circle, there are LNG tankers.
Edited on Wed Dec-05-07 09:32 AM by Mass
They have been showing this all morning on TV. Incredible that there is no casualties.

Video here.
http://www1.whdh.com/
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MADem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-05-07 09:44 AM
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5. Can you imagine if that tanker had whipped into those? NT
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