> Wednesday a tanker truck overturned on Interstate 55 at the northbound
> Lemont Road exit. Dawne and I were on our way back from court when I
> noticed all of this smoke coming from what turned out to be ten miles
> to the west of us, so since I am a guy (Dawne said she thought it must
> be a "guy thing", we had to go and check it out. Good thing we didn't
> take the Interstate itself, which turned out to be a parking lot for
> miles in either direction. Instead, we took a frontage road that I
> knew would take us right past the site (by then news of the fire was
> on the radio).
>
> We pulled up to the site and there were all these guys (yes, mainly
> dudes) pulled over standing on their cars trying to get photos with
> their cameras. I was surprised the Authorities let us get as close as
> they did to this fire--and even allowed traffic to continue right past
> the scene.
>
> This was a pretty impressive sight to see. Now I know what an oil
> well fire must look like (though probably on a smaller scale). The
> gas the truck was carrying must have soaked into the ground and caused ...

>> http://santafe.kriho.com/sightings/truckexplosion/1.html
>>
>> --
>> YOP.

>
> I-55 was a total muster bluck on wed., a beer truck wrecked on the
> ramp to I-294 during the morning, dimwit driver drove straight from
> St. Louis with Becks cases. WIth the Exxon and Citgo refineries down
> there I'm surprised more tankers haven't wrecked. Now we know that no
> fire dept. has foam trucks around here and they have to wait for CFD
> from midway to get any foam.

> Wednesday a tanker truck overturned on Interstate 55 at the northbound
> Lemont...

> dude,
> those pictures are smokin
>
>

> I know a very tiny bit about emergency/hazmat response and i'm ...
> absolutely and utterly appalled to hear there wasn't a foam rig nearly
> instantly available... esp. in that part of the state.

> I would have thought there'd be one in every station proximate to 55.
> It's not like they're that expensive ... hell, even friggin Sheridan Il
> (lesser stumpknuckle) has one.
>
> Shit like foam rigs is exactly what all that 9-11 cash is supposed to be
> paying for. Why the fuck did they have to call in CPD in from the
> airport for a tanker truck. this is bullshit. someone is not doing
> their job and money is being diverted.

> Dawne

> In article
> <11327683-6900-4802-8458-d3dcafacd...@a22g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
>
> Nicko gmail.com> wrote:

>> Dawne

>
> why did her paretns put an "e" at the end of her name?

> max wrote:

>> I know a very tiny bit about emergency/hazmat response and i'm ...
>> absolutely and utterly appalled to hear there wasn't a foam rig nearly
>> instantly available... esp. in that part of the state.

>
> I'm very surprised myself.
>

>> I would have thought there'd be one in every station proximate to 55.
>> It's not like they're that expensive ... hell, even friggin Sheridan Il
>> (lesser stumpknuckle) has one.  

>

>> Shit like foam rigs is exactly what all that 9-11 cash is supposed to be
>> paying for.  Why the fuck did they have to call in CPD in from the
>> airport for a tanker truck.  this is bullshit.  someone is not doing
>> their job and money is being diverted.

>
> The problem is, there ain't much money going to the actual departments,
> and what is going has to be diverted to bullshit that bureaucrats like.
> There's no romance in putting out fires; for that they can use the 20- ...

>On Apr 5, 12:32 pm, clifto gmail.com> wrote:

>> max wrote:

>>> I know a very tiny bit about emergency/hazmat response and i'm ...
>>> absolutely and utterly appalled to hear there wasn't a foam rig nearly
>>> instantly available... esp. in that part of the state.

>>
>> I'm very surprised myself.
>>

>>> I would have thought there'd be one in every station proximate to 55.
>>> It's not like they're that expensive ... hell, even friggin Sheridan Il
>>> (lesser stumpknuckle) has one.  

>>

>>> Shit like foam rigs is exactly what all that 9-11 cash is supposed to be
>>> paying for.  Why the fuck did they have to call in CPD in from the
>>> airport for a tanker truck.  this is bullshit.  someone is not doing
>>> their job and money is being diverted.