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Massive Explosion & Fire After Yet Another Crude Tanker Crashes In Detroit - Live Feed
It is becoming just a little too much of a daily occurrence but instead of a rail freight car crashing, today we see a massive explosion and fire erupt from an oil tanker crash in Detroit... As gas prices remain low, the shift from rail to road will likely increase the frequency of these scenes....
A massive tanker fire on eastbound I-94 in Dearborn has shut down both directions of the freeway between Addison and Michigan Avenue. The fire is raging on the Detroit - Dearborn border.
At least two vehicles, in addition to the tanker, are on fire. There is no word on injuries at this time. A number of people can be seen on the side of the road. Flames can also be seen coming from sewer system manholes.
One witness says they heard what sounded like an explosion.
The heavy black smoke can be seen for miles. Rob Morosi from the Michigan Department of Transportation says crews are re-routing traffic. Once the fire is out, Morosi says crews will assess any damage to the freeway, and expects that the freeway will be closed for an indefinite amount of time.
Live Feed:
The images are stunning...
Tanker fire #i94 and Wyoming in #detroit #local4 https://t.co/1ZwzFuemu0
— Michael (@MikeThePhotog) March 11, 2015
#Sky4 over large tanker fire on #I94 near Wyoming #local4 #Detroit pic.twitter.com/c1U2Rj6UI1
— Michael (@MikeThePhotog) March 11, 2015
#i94 closed at Wyoming. Crews arriving on scene. #local4 #breaking https://t.co/NTvg19CKfd
— Michael (@MikeThePhotog) March 11, 2015
I-94 at Wyoming is closed in both directions because of tanker fire. At least 2 cars also involved. pic.twitter.com/5J77odrxe2
— Halston Herrera (@ClickOnHalston) March 11, 2015
WATCH LIVE: Massive tanker fire, I-94 closed in both directions in Dearborn: http://t.co/CwDvkIxLGg pic.twitter.com/Za5zuPwWCn
— WXYZ Detroit (@wxyzdetroit) March 11, 2015
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Massive fires in Detroit can only help...
Burn it down. Burn it to the ground.
That fire could use some quantitative easing.
So that guy's underwear finally caught fire. Nothing to see here, move along.
That road will need resurfacing...
who was that politico that warned that there will be more tanker explosions and train derailments? was definately privy to some info
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it also appears ol' warren buff-it is using mafia extortion tactics to force some folks into using his railway shipping
How many bonus carbon credits do they get for this?
If you look in the top left corner of that video you can clearly see Putin stood there with a match...
After it burns out and they fix the tracks, one can only hope for huge trainfull of salt and blasting gel to go off there, midway between Dearbornistan and Detroit(democratistan). Actually, throw in some cars full of live hogs, to answer the call to prayer with a rain of bacon and pink mist.
It was the Syrian rebels (living in Dearborn). (For those who don't know, Dearborn is home to the largest group of arab speaking people in the U.S.).
Kind of makes you think a pipeline would be safer and more reliable than all these dirty and dangerous trains/trucks. Perhaps we should all write our congressmen to make that pipeline happen. The timing is purely coincidence.
Once is an accident twice is a coincidence three times is enemy action. 4 times is sabotage of rail and truck oil from Bakken fields in support of Keystone XL. As major stakeholders in huge rail companies, Buffet and Gates are not pleased. Expect blowback.
Doesnt help that Bakken shale oil is HIGHLY unstable
I wonder what was it insured for...
You can buff that out.
Pipelines are so dangerous and harmful to the environment, people. How many times do we have to see them blow up for folks to understand this?
It doesn't take a genius to predict that when rail transport of crude oil has risen 400% in the last few years.
It's not crude. Nobody transports crude in a semi tanker unless you just recovered it from a pipeline/railcar spill and are transporting it back to the terminal.
It's a refined product (gasoline, diesel, kerosene).
Too bad no one cared to report about the UN placard on the side of the tanker (1993 is diesel, 2103 is gasoline, etc.)
I'm going to take a wild guess that the placard no longer exists.
Maybe one of Buffet's business nerds could chime in here.
1202 is diesel, 1203 is gasoline.
Placards are generally aluminum of the flip over variety.
http://www.labelmaster.com/shop/placards/placarding-systems/flip-placard...
To transport crude you need a special insulated tanker, of the same type used to haul asphalt.
http://www.altomtransport.com/equipment-page/crude-oil-tank/
I drove product tankers for 10 years. That is how gasoline diesel, furnace oil and jet fuel is transported.
Fires are rare, but they do happen. We had one right in front of our refinery when a sports car rammed into the trailer of a unit that was entering the roadway during heavy fog.
Going by the size of the fire, I'd say this was a gasoline tanker. The black smoke is burning tires and other plastic components.
Finally, there is no long distance road transportation of crude oil, nor will there ever be. It's simply not economical.
"As gas prices remain low, the shift from rail to road will likely increase the frequency of these scenes...."
It's statements like these that make me lose interest in this site.
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As a point of fact, the tanker industry is much safer today than it was when I worked there in the 80's. I know this because I went back to driving tankers for a brief period a couple of years ago. There were three tests I had to pass with 90% or higher grade before they'd even let me near a loading rack. Everything is on camera, so if you screw up, they know about it. No hiding your mistakes, so you really try hard to get it right. The rigs are larger now, but much easier to control with more safety features and a recovery system for vapor, which in my day was simply vented to the atmosphere. All in all, the industry is well run, as evidenced by the very low accident rate compared to other forms of road transport.
With one or two notable exceptions (who didn't last long) everyone I met in that industry was very safety conscious and ready to help, whatever the situation. I would often be the last guy finishing a shift, as (being junior) I had the longer hauls. Without fail, if it snowed that night, my car would be swept clean and the windows scraped of ice when I got to it. That's the kind of people who drive tankers.
Agree, this peice appears to me to be total BS. "shift from rail to road " ??? If whoever wrote this is talking about crude I want to know based on what data? I doubt any such data exists other than in a fantasy that exists in some twisted mind. Product tankers occasionally burn. It is a known risk taken so that our civilization can benefit from the use of petroleum products to increase the standard of living.
Shovel Ready Jobs!
Not in Detroit !
These stupid green global warming anti pipeline a-holes !!!
Where is Flak ?
Any EBT recipients tragically die?
Even they knew enough to have left Detroit. The city (raaaaacists) told them to pay for their water usage.
They live on in our voter rolls.
It was Hillary's yoga pants that were on fire.
"Burn it down. Burn it to the ground."
Was not aware that there was much left to burn. Learn something every day.
Wait!
Tanker TRUCKS can blow up too?
I thought it was just those darned TRAINS.
No no, it's the pipelines that are always in danger of exploding at the slightest bump from a bumblebee.
What we need is High Speed Rail to move all oil in the US, it's safer.
Because the faster the train moves, the less time it has to crash and burn.
"Bammy Rail"
No we don't. There's absolutely no need to close off the other side of the road.
You can clearly see that there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. If they opened the roads and stopped fucking about we wouldn't need high speed anything.
Just sayin'...
I agree, let those pressurized natural gas trucks into the fast lane right next to it, nothing could go wrong.
Do you work in a central bank by any chance?
I guess where you live the wind never changes direction. :/
We should name the first line "the Napalm Line".
Nothing like the smell of Napalm in the morning..
Pipelines are made of banned steel recovered from exploded Ford Pintos sold by the kind of bastards who'd set up a scrap yard atop ancient, cursed Amerindian burial grounds. Like the Koch brothers.
too bad nobody has thought of building more pipelinea to haul this stuff !!
2 Weeks since the last one huh???
Prepare for "Unexpected Draw" on crude...
THEY BUILD PIPELINES FOR THIS SHIT RIGHT HERE...
Then came BARRY.
Agreed for US oil, but hell no for Canadian oil
Send these tankers to East Ukraine!!!!
Hooray. who need a storage if you can just burn oil?
How very 1800s of you.
Uhh...Oh.... Better call Geico.. oh wait, that's only for uncle Warren's rails when they blow up.
Hmmm...tanker trains as a metaphor for the world's economy. I like it.
Where is Dick Cheney?
Busy shooting lawyers...
this is pretty weak sauce, ZH... pretty weak
are the fox news bimbo's blaming the muslums??
No but CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, NPR, Wash Post, NY Times are stil blaming Bush.
wait what? WXYZ is certainly a credible news outlet. i believe they are a subsidary of 123 corp or was it yabba dabba doo inc?
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comedy fail
any how looks weird to me. it looks as though the tanker just exploded. doesnt appear to be the result of a collision
Well, the tanker doesn't appear wrecked very badly, but there's a car sitting sideways directly in front of it. So, I'd guess it (or the engine on the semi) was the source of the fire. (edit: well, after looking at more pics, I see the tanker was on fire before either the car or the semi, so who knows???)
As for "weak sauce," I'm guessing the comment was due to this story not being ZH-worthy. Which honestly, it isn't, other than being click-bait.
Everyone clickbaits. It does no harm and may even have health benefits.
Did you miss the two complety charred passenger cars?
RIP to those lives lost in this accident.
You'd think a thing like that would make it into the copy.
Actually the source states there were only minor injuries. Yay airbags.
The take up less channel stuffing room that way.
Urban renewal project.
Can't make money off of oil so we will make it off the insurance claims.
Obligatory Krugman has wood comment.
........disco inferno
Looks like someone in a car decided to cut off an oil tanker truck. I'm sure there is an acceptable level of "spillage".
Damn it. Got that shitty song in my head now. Is there such a thing as ear bleach?
Miffed
Only an even worse song. As someone who always has a song in my head, I can recommend several.
Where the phot of that suspect seen leaving the scene?
The yellow Dewalt?
The oligarchs are at war with themselves.
I have noticed the purely coincidental way in which all these road and rail transport services have been blowing up since Keystone got vetoed.
sounds like terrorism!!! where's DHS?....
lots of accidents at railway crossings of late too.
Wierd that that one truck was important enough to have a police escort and the police couldn't coordinate with the railroad to make a safe crossing. I mean, I ran a 5k fun run by my house that crossed some railroad tracks and the race director had direct radio contact with the railroad to ensure a safe crossing. Hmmm, it can't be that difficult.
Lower the speed limit, raise the threat level, require second drivers, require escort vehicles.
The threats coming out of Russia have been pretty intense of late (and I'm sure Venezuela now as well.)
These are "targeted sanctions" after all so one would be foolish to assume...
truck had just cleared a VIPR checkpoint. draw your own conclusion.
I'm going to guess that the car coming over the median just might've been a factor.
It does seem quite a messy destructive way to raise gas prices.
Miffed
Insured for more than 50 bucks a barrel?
We incinerated some folks.
As someone on ZH so eloquently stated:
"The #1 cause of refinery fires are low prices"
isn't that offramp next to a grassy knoll?
They had a biofuel one yesterday in New York.....this is burning better...the biofulel did not even light....to hard to do....no BTUs...but its green baby...
Hey, why don't we build a pipeline so that we can minimize the accidents?
Gotta lower supply somehow.
#imtanker
#BringBackOurTankers
#WeTankeredSomeFolks
#TankerAmovieTittle
#IfObamaHadATanker
Thankyou Mr Choo Choo
http://theartofannihilation.com/keystone-xl-the-art-of-ngo-discourse-par...
Fire keeps reigniting. Firefighters have now buried the entire scene in foam. And still the fire keeps reigniting.
While I-94 is mostly a sunken freeway, this is the first open section west of Detroit. Incident site between overhead bridges, so the damage will be mostly to the pavement.
Lucky for them it's on a federal roadway.
This is near the Hooker Area on Michigan Avenue.
LOL
Hmmm... someone using unconventional methods via nutzoids to promote the Keystone pipeline or just a statistical abberation?
why don't we want pipelines?
maybe it's bad for news... it's hard to get this kind of news with pipelines...
Yet another crazy trucker high on biker crank, and reading the fine print on the tail light in front of him.
It's more likely the car sitting sideways in front of the truck cut the truck off and paid the price.
Oilshal unrest leads to Oilsial law.
Interesting way to control your inventory.
Just blow it up.
You have a storage problem?
Not any more.
Call the russians and chinese to build you a safe pipeline.
/S
A pro-Keystone terrorist organization called ICEIS claimed responsibility.
Interesting you should mention that. I'm wondering about all the exploding oil tank news now that Obama vetoed the Keystone pipeline.
the WTI-tanic sails again!
Watch out for those highway-bergs
Never seen a highway - berg.
Here's a Denver sewer "Grease-berg" to have a chew over though . . . http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/08/29/article-0-1B84E167000005DC-28_634x357.jpg
I'm starting to get a clear picture now.
1) explosions will eventually turn the tide FOR pipelines.
2) railroad owners (Buffett anyone?) stand to profit off insurance claims.
Shouldn't the title have read...
"ARTIST IMPRESSION OF OIL PRICES"
I bet one of the natives tried one of those "detroit turns" I see so often here locally.
Broken windows, bitches. All is good.
Running out of storage space for oil... oil prices too low...
Got a match?
Who builds these exploding tankers? I hope they go a good price...
PUTIN DID IT ! ! ! !
You aint seen nuthin yet----
just run this explosive Baaken stuff in pipelines
and wait until oe of them blows ! ! !
Anyone but me notice the MRAP's blocking the road to the overpass near the fire? Got to use them for something until the shit hits the fan I guess.
Well then. This image is getting rarer, but don't say you weren't warned.
http://beaconnews.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Lac-Megantic-06jul13-2.png
The wolves are running OPs all over the yard. Scum. Still, one supposes that unlike the EU ops, they're not shooting policemen are they?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/12/us-usa-missouri-shooting-prote...
Oops. Gladio comes home. (Hint: it never left)