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Large Fire Near Rail Yard in New Orleans

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halifaxcn

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December 2001
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Large Fire Near Rail Yard in New Orleans

Posted by halifaxcn on Saturday, September 3, 2005 8:40 AM

Fox News is showing real time shots of a large fire near a rail yard. I spotted several covered hoppers. This was at 0939 hrs Eastern time Saturday.

Regards

Frank San Severino CP-198 Amtrak NEC Attleboro, MA

Junctionfan

Member since
February 2004
From: St.Catharines, Ontario
3,770 posts

Posted by Junctionfan on Saturday, September 3, 2005 9:10 AM

I heard that fire boats were in the area before putting out a fire only now to find them up and in flames again. It almost looks like a natural gas line that wasn't shut off is to blame.

I wonder how useful some water-bombers would be for something like that.

Andrew

robscaboose

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April 2004
From: Terre Haute IN
199 posts

Posted by robscaboose on Saturday, September 3, 2005 11:09 PM

I asked a friend of mine who is a gas man for a local utility, about why they were keeping the line pressurized with natural gas. He said that if they shut the line down & let the gas vacate then it would be very difficult to reopen the line if water filled the system.