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Both of Waverly's fire trucks were destroyed. In 1979, the total property damage was estimated at $1,800,000, equivalent to $6,097,000 in 2023. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) eventually blamed the blast on the car itself, as a crack had developed when the car was damaged by the derailment.
Soon after the accident, the truck caught fire, so the driver immediately called the emergency number. Two fire trucks arrived at the scene 20 minutes later and started putting out the fire. A TV crew also arrived and started filming for a news program. Meanwhile, curious villagers gathered around the accident site.
At the time of the accident, the entire interchange was considered one of the most dangerous in the state and had a crash rate much higher than the state average. [9] TDOT had begun preliminary work in early 1988 for a project to reconstruct the interchange, estimated to cost US$ 100 million at the time (equivalent to $222 million in 2023 [ 10 ] ).
Authorities say seven firefighters were injured when two tanker trucks crashed while responding to a large blaze in York, Pennsylvania. Officials said the crash occurred shortly before 11 p.m ...
About 5,000 residents evacuated after the derailment of a freight train carrying flammable and toxic gas in eastern Tennessee were allowed home on Friday as investigators looked into the cause of ...
In the last 100 years, the Knoxville Fire Department has grown from the Headquarters station in an old livery stable building with two horse drawn engine companies and one aerial truck company to 19 fire stations, out of which 13 fire engines, 3 squads, 3 quints, 5 ladder trucks, 1 being a tiller or tractor drawn aerial, 2 rescue units, and 1 ...
The Tennessee State Fire Marshal's Office has a range of options at our disposal to alleviate various discrepancies found during an inspection. That said, every case is unique so we cannot ...
The Benton fireworks disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred on May 27, 1983, on a farm near Benton, Tennessee.A powerful explosion at an unlicensed fireworks factory producing illegal fireworks killed eleven and injured one, revealing the existence of the factory for the first time to law enforcement and the public.