Bus carrying Hurricane Rita evacuees has exploded on Interstate 45 near Dallas...

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Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Originally posted by: ThePresence
Originally posted by: 91TTZ
It caught fire, but it did not explode.
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I just copied and pasted the headline.
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Sounds like Drudge ;)
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Actually it's the headline of the news link he provided. :roll:
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No, it really isn't.

"Bus Carrying Evacuees Catches Fire; 1 Dead"

That's the headline on the page that he linked to. NOWHERE on that page does it say "explodes", that's something that he put up himself.
 
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tami

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quote from CNN.com's main page:

A bus carrying Hurricane Rita evacuees caught fire on Interstate 45 south of Dallas this morning and a sheriff's official said one person was killed, according to The Associated Press. Television pictures from the scene show the bus engulfed in flames. Meanwhile, the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center has the hurricane on track for landfall along Southwest Louisiana and upper Texas coasts late today or tonight.
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Anyway, back to the news. Yes, engulfed in flames. Plastered all over the news. Backup for miles, and miles.
 
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1. Elderly people were on the bus

2. Bus caught fire *supposedly from the brake system*

3. Old people's oxygen tanks + fire = boom

4. At least 20 people feared dead.
 
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Just finished reading about this, what a tragedty :(


I was just about to post this but decided not to.. i even searched for the word bus and this one didn't come up.. geeze
 
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Originally posted by: LinuxIdiot

1. Elderly people were on the bus

2. Bus caught fire *supposedly from the brake system*

3. Old people's oxygen tanks + fire = boom

4. At least 20 people feared dead.
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Can some chemist explain how oxygen tanks explode?
 
Zanix

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Originally posted by: BAMAVOO
Let me get this out of the way.


Bush did it. :disgust:
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Would everybody just STFU with all the P&N BS already! :disgust:
 
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NYTIMES REPORT


September 23, 2005
Bus Carrying Elderly Storm Evacuees Explodes Near Dallas
By RICK LYMAN and VIKAS BAJAJ

HOUSTON, Sept. 23 - A bus carrying elderly evacuees from an assisted living center in Houston exploded into flames on its way to Dallas early this morning, killing at least 20 people, according to the Dallas County sheriff's office. The county medical examiner's office said the death toll could be as high as 24 and the number might change throughout the day.

The bus was carrying 44 people - 38 residents and 6 staff members - from Brighton Gardens of Bellaire, an assisted living center in Bellaire, a suburb southwest of Houston, when it caught fire on Interstate 45, the main highway connecting Dallas and Houston. The explosion occurred near Hutchins, a suburb about 13 miles from downtown Dallas.

Witnesses talking to local TV reporters said there was smoke coming out of the bus which was pulled over to the side of the road before it exploded at 7 a.m. Central time. Traffic behind the bus stopped immediately and was backed up 17 miles within 10 minutes and more than 20 miles shortly thereafter. People jumped out of their cars and tried to get into the bus, breaking through the windows, to get the people out. According to reports, at least 14 people did get out of the bus alive, though injured.

About a dozen people were taken to Dallas areas hospitals and nine of those had arrived at Parkland Hospital as of 9 a.m. local time, said Melissa Turner, a spokeswoman for the county-run hospital.

"From what we understand the worse injury is smoke inhalation," Ms. Turner said. "We are awaiting our next update."

The bus appears to have caught fire because of mechanical problems and the situation might have been made worse when patients' oxygen tanks started exploding, Don Peritz, a spokesman for the Dallas County sheriff told The Associated Press. The driver appears to have survived.

"It's my understanding he went back on the bus several times to try to evacuate people," Mr. Peritz said.

Images of the flaming bus were broadcast on live local television and picked up on national cable news channels. By 8 a.m., police were diverting traffic off Interstate 45 and around the accident scene, but the backup was still severe.

In Houston, city officials defended their decision to encourage residents of the nation's fourth-largest city to evacuate. Mayor Bill White insisted that a mandatory evacuation order applied only to low-lying areas and not the city as a whole.

As they did Thursday night, the mayor and other officials told people living in the "voluntary evacuation" area, which includes most of metropolitan Houston, to stay off the highways and at home - that it was too late to try to escape the storm and their safest bet was to hunker down at home.

The elderly, especially those that need constant medical supervision are often at the greatest risk of death and serious injury during hurried evacuations, according to health experts. This morning the average temperature in Dallas and Houston was 81 degrees and was expected to rise to a high of 90 degrees.

Rick Lyman reported from Houston and Vikas Bajaj reported from New York for this article.
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