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Coach bus burns to a crisp during Rita evacuation

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Re: Coach bus burns to a crisp during Rita evacuation

its kinda getting scary how many deaths you hear on the news on a daily bases now. . .those poor old people
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Re: Coach bus burns to a crisp during Rita evacuation

I feel sorry for them.
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Re: Coach bus burns to a crisp during Rita evacuation

I too feel sorry for the old folks, but i feel sorrier for the ones whos in charge of the trip, they're gonna get screwed! The O2 probley worked its way into some electrical connections/cuircuts and BOOM!
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Re: Re: Coach bus burns to a crisp during Rita evacuation

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I too feel sorry for the old folks, but i feel sorrier for the ones whos in charge of the trip, they're gonna get screwed! The O2 probley worked its way into some electrical connections/cuircuts and BOOM!
I think it was more, that an electrical fire occured, then the temperature in the bus had risen rapidly and really high, thus causing the pressure in the O2 tanks to increase, then they exploded when they go too hot. It say in the article that they exploded.
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Re: Coach bus burns to a crisp during Rita evacuation

i think those O2 tanks take 120+ to explode. And I'm sure they did explode, after a fire had started somewhere in/on the bus. I've seen people on O2 smoke and little sparks of FIRE twinkle under their noses. I'm sure in the next feew days we'll learn all about it, repeatedly, on the news.
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Re: Coach bus burns to a crisp during Rita evacuation

is it coming to this "watch video: evacuee bus catches fire" ?
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Re: Coach bus burns to a crisp during Rita evacuation

The bus was owned by some fly-by-night company out of McAllen/Pharr on the Texas-Mexico border. The driver did not have a valid Texas driver's license. He had a Mexican driver's license. It figures. Looks like someone is getting sued big time.



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man thats rough. it always freaks me out when you see this pile of metal then a blanket covering part of it.
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