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Downtown Overland Park KS on fire. Out of control.
eyewitness | 3/1/06 | Mercat

Posted on 03/01/2006 4:32:36 PM PST by Mercat

Downtown Overland Park is on fire. Sounds like about half of it is gutted. The fire is being seen from as far away as 50 miles. Source was an old cluttered art gallery.


TOPICS: US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: fire; kansas; overlandpark
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To: colorado tanker

"Downtown" OP starts at about 79th St, from Metcalf to the west. Santa Fe Trail Dr. runs thru there.


21 posted on 03/01/2006 4:46:32 PM PST by hmmmmm
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To: hole_n_one

Sunny and warm? Feeling hot, hot, hot.


22 posted on 03/01/2006 4:48:16 PM PST by gathersnomoss
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To: Mercat

Did the gallery have a cartoon wing?


23 posted on 03/01/2006 4:50:22 PM PST by hollywood (Stay on topic, please.)
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To: 1rudeboy
No, this was not Islamic terrorists.

It really gets old seeing every fire, explosion, building collapse, train wreck, plane crash, etc. blamed on terrorists.

Sometimes a fire is just a fire.

24 posted on 03/01/2006 4:52:37 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Pat Buchanan lost a family member in the holocaust. The man fell out of a guard tower.)
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To: COEXERJ145

Whew! That answers #23.


25 posted on 03/01/2006 4:54:41 PM PST by hollywood (Stay on topic, please.)
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To: Mercat; hmmmmm

Looks like a bad fire.


26 posted on 03/01/2006 4:56:16 PM PST by colorado tanker (We need more "chicken-bleep Democrats" in the Senate!)
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To: Mercat

I'd say less than 2 miles from me....TV 'copters were hovering for quite a while. I heard it's an art gallery, they think everyone got out, and paints and what-not are burning pretty good.


27 posted on 03/01/2006 4:56:48 PM PST by Overtaxed
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To: Maury
Wow, you can feel the heat a whole 25 yards away?

More stupid reporting!!

You can feel the heat from my BBQ pit nearly that far.
28 posted on 03/01/2006 5:17:56 PM PST by 76834 (There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.)
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To: Crazieman

I'm looking out my window to the west, where Kansas City would be, and I'm not seeing anything in the way of fire.


29 posted on 03/01/2006 5:19:55 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Another Blizzard Coming to Northeast in early March)
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To: TomGuy

Oh no! First it was don knotts, now OP is on fire!!!


30 posted on 03/01/2006 5:20:27 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Mercat

I zoomed in on your house and I think you left your iron on.


31 posted on 03/01/2006 5:20:42 PM PST by freeplancer
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To: Mercat

In 1978, there used to be a disco right next to the tower called "Bananas". Do you remember? Am I just old?


32 posted on 03/01/2006 5:21:46 PM PST by freeplancer
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To: freeplancer

You can get a great steak in KCMO.


33 posted on 03/01/2006 5:23:30 PM PST by battlegearboat
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To: Mercat

Hope they do get it under control.


34 posted on 03/01/2006 5:24:14 PM PST by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: COEXERJ145
I was engaging in a bit of sardonic humor aimed at the knee-jerk wing here. Check my "tagline."

And yes, I find it as annoying as you do.

35 posted on 03/01/2006 5:31:26 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
My misunderstanding then.

It does get old seeing everything from a car wreck to a plane crash blamed on terrorists. Way too many people on this forum see any and everything as a terrorist act.

I'm sure the real terrorists are just sitting back laughing knowing that they don't have to do anything in order for people to panic.

36 posted on 03/01/2006 5:41:52 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Pat Buchanan lost a family member in the holocaust. The man fell out of a guard tower.)
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To: COEXERJ145

My favorite TROP knee-jerk thread occurred earlier this summer. Some poor bloke had the misfortune of being beheaded on a London street in broad daylight. Hours of, ahem, ethnically- and religiously-based speculation followed, until it was discovered that the event was the unfortunate culmination of a homsexual lover's quarrel. I'm sure even Mullah Omar had a laugh over that one.


37 posted on 03/01/2006 6:10:33 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
Yeah, same for a gang rape that a woman said happened to her at Disney World.

Most of the thread was about blaming Muslims or Mexicans when it turns out the suspects were French.

38 posted on 03/01/2006 6:13:07 PM PST by COEXERJ145 (Pat Buchanan lost a family member in the holocaust. The man fell out of a guard tower.)
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To: freeplancer

I zoomed in on your house and I think you left your iron on.

OMG tooooo funny.


39 posted on 03/01/2006 11:01:39 PM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: COEXERJ145
Did you see this?

Investigators Clear Disney Employees Of Alleged Rape

40 posted on 03/03/2006 2:30:01 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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