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SunSeeker

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14. Glad Newsom declared an emergency, it certainly is.

Reply to quaint (Reply #13)

Sun Nov 12, 2023, 01:27 PM

Nov 2023

This is devastating to anyone living or traveling to downtown LA or anywhere near it. Hopefully they can rebuild it as fast as they did the 10 after the 1994 earthquake, but even that took almost 3 months.

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Enormous fire under LA freeway burns [View all] BigmanPigman Nov 2023 OP

That overpass is trashed. hunter Nov 2023 #1

There was a huge freeway fire in Phila on I-95 but BigmanPigman Nov 2023 #2

The Biden administration helped the I-95 project IbogaProject Nov 2023 #7

It that do-able to this freeway? BigmanPigman Nov 2023 #9

Homeless under it ? Captain Zero Nov 2023 #3

It's very likely someone's cardboard shack or decrepit motor home caught fire. hunter Nov 2023 #4

It started in a storage facility Demobrat Nov 2023 #5

It wouldn't surprise me if was a homeless-related fire: there were several nearby C Moon Nov 2023 #6

Might just be a sloppy business IbogaProject Nov 2023 #8

Yes. Actually, that does sound like what it was. C Moon Nov 2023 #18

It's a little early to say. I'm also thinking it was started accidentally by a homeless person. nt TeamProg Nov 2023 #10

A fire like that burned in Atlanta under a freeway relayerbob Nov 2023 #11

Monday morning traffic into Downtown LA on the 10 will be a nightmare. SunSeeker Nov 2023 #12

Pallet yard underneath the freeway NOT caused by unhoused, they're victims. quaint Nov 2023 #13

Glad Newsom declared an emergency, it certainly is. SunSeeker Nov 2023 #14

I read the comments to the You Tube BigmanPigman Nov 2023 #15

Palet yards are huge campfires waiting to happen Cheezoholic Nov 2023 #16

Apparently, strangely. quaint Nov 2023 #17

From what I read, a fire engine was destroyed. C Moon Nov 2023 #19