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The crash occurred when an Orange County Fire Authority truck swerved to miss a ladder in the road, causing it to flip, reports say. 8 California firefighters injured in freeway rollover after ...
It slid along the ground for about 150 feet, spraying sand, but remained upright. The bottom of the fuselage and the propeller tips were slightly damaged. A fire truck, crash truck, ambulances and emergency chews [sic] were waiting in readiness as Lieutenant Balfour essayed his hazardous landing. The three were brought back to March field in ...
December 9 – Mexico – Chiapas truck crash. A truck carrying over 180 smuggled migrants on Mexican Federal Highway 190 overturned and hit the base of a pedestrian bridge, killing 55 people and injuring over 100. December 14 – Haiti – Cap-Haïtien fuel tanker explosion. A fuel truck overturned and exploded, killing at least 90 people and ...
2010: Dalian Pipeline disaster – The explosion of two petroleum pipelines and subsequent fire in the port of Dalian, in northern China's Liaoning province on Saturday, on July 17, 2010, caused fatalities, damages and an ecological disaster, releasing 11,000 barrels of oil into the Yellow Sea, and covering up, according to different sources, from 50 to 430 km 2 of sea and coast lines.
On 10 June 1961 a Standard Oil tanker truck carrying 7,900 gallons of gasoline [1] traveling through Toledo, Ohio rolled over and the gasoline that spilled caught fire and exploded killing four firefighters and injuring 11 more. Around eighty people were injured thirty of which were children.
A Tesla big rig crashed in Northern California on Monday and ignited the vehicle's battery, starting a fire that filled the air with toxic fumes and forced the closure of Interstate 80 in both ...
The 45th car in the train derails such that it blocks the parallel second main track, into which an eastbound BNSF oil train collides. Dash 9-44CW 4934 strikes the car and almost 500,000 gallons of crude oil are released from the oil train; the oil catches fire, forcing the evacuation of 1,400 nearby residents. [27] [28]
One of the two pilots of a vintage military plane that was delivering heating oil to a remote Alaska Native village reported a fire on board shortly before the aircraft crashed and burned outside ...