Cal Fire News Quick Editorial: Interesting initial report on Truck explosion?

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Cal Fire News Quick Editorial: Interesting initial report on Truck explosion?

Does this look like a bomb? or accident?

Trucks on fire Interstate 5
Photo credit: AOL

Cal Fire News Quick Editorial: Witness saw Yellow truck explode first, If this Yellow truck exploded on it own first? then there are further implications, from Terrorist truck bomb attack to Truck transportation safety issues...This story maybe just beginning?
" Reporting party saw the yellow truck explode lighting up the sky with burning pieces of truck and engine on roadway then causing the other secondary traffic collisions"...
Exploding a truck in a tunnel on California's busiest freeway would be a text book terror attack, Newhall Pass is a key to the whole California transit system.

From CHP CAD in regards to last nights truck explosion

10:45PM	PER RP SEMI TRK EXPLODED & OTHER VEH TC D W/TRK / PCS OF ENGINE ARE ON FIRE IN RDWY
10:44PM	1039 LACO FD
10:44PM	RP ADVSED HE AND HIS GRANDMOTHER WERE DRIVING ON NB SIDE AND SAW A YEL BIG RIG EXPLODE, THE WHOLE SKY LIT UP
10:42PM	YELLOW SEMI TRUCK ON FIRE, BLOCKING UNK LN

From the headlines in regards to last nights truck explosion: At one point flames shot out of the tunnel and 100 feet into the night sky, said Los Angeles County firefighter Scott Clark, one of some 300 firefighters battling the blaze at its height.

"It looked like a bomb went off," said Clark, who battled the flames throughout the night.

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Saturday, October 13, 2007