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BREAKING: Bus Explosion & Fire in New York City – Photos
Gateway Pundit ^ | Thursday, April 5, 2012, 11:32 PM | Jim Hoft

Posted on 04/05/2012 10:21:26 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache

Edited on 04/06/2012 5:12:11 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

A team of dispatchers – New York City Alerts is reporting: Brooklyn: *Bus On Fire* Box #2748. 7 Ave & 92 St. U/D; units repotring a MTA bus exploded involving 6 cars. NY01

Brooklyn: *Bus On Fire* 7 Ave & 92 St. U/D; EMS treating 7 victims, 1 in serious condition likely to die. Fire is knocked down. NY01

UPDATE: A bus and six cars were torched in the blaze.
The New York Daily News reported:

A twin-size mattress that ended up under an MTA bus is being blamed for sparking a bizarre Thursday night Brooklyn blaze that left the bus and six parked cars torched.



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To: BykrBayb
If there ever were any stories about it, they've been scrubbed.

LOL

He** of a deal, ain't it?

See something in the media, and the first thing you've got to do is go research sources for something factual.

(A good start would be to suggest that you quit using Google.....they're really no more than a media echo chamber that records your searches and your IP address in the bargain.)

Bet you never thought that you'd become a journalist. Even in self defense.

101 posted on 04/06/2012 6:34:15 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet ((287 and a wakeup) Truth, I know, always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition.)
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To: My Favorite Headache
Fire is knocked down

Who the hell writes this stuff???

Fire gets knocked down
But fire gets up again
You're never going to keep fire down
Fire gets knocked down
But fire gets up again
You're never going to keep fire down
Burning the night away
Burning the night away
He burns a bus up
He burns a car up
He burns a building up
He burns a tree up
He burns the stuff that reminds him
Of the good times
He burns the stuff that reminds him
Of the better times
"Oh Fire Fighter
Fire Fighter..."
Fire gets knocked down
But fire gets up again
You're never going to keep fire down
Fire gets knocked down
But fire gets up again
You're never going to keep fire down

102 posted on 04/06/2012 6:40:20 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Shut up and drill.)
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To: az_gila

Nat gas is carried on the roof.


103 posted on 04/06/2012 6:53:56 AM PDT by Excellence (9/11 was an act of faith.)
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To: foreshadowed at waco
The bus explosion was in Brooklyn which is one of the boroughs in New York City...there is a 92nd Street and 7th Avenue in Brooklyn

Thanks, but I know. I've lived in NYC all my 54 years. I made a mistake and ass-u-me-d that they were referring to Manhattan. Got home very late from work yesterday and have been on meds for a bad tooth infection. I corrected myself back in post 15. :)

104 posted on 04/06/2012 6:57:58 AM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: peeps36

If it got caught under something, and folded or bunched up, I suppose it could reach places. Weird accidents can happen.


105 posted on 04/06/2012 7:06:00 AM PDT by PghBaldy (Obama is afraid if he needs to start a fight with Catholics. He's losing the women's vote!!!)
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To: El Gato

Homeland Security is most likely off work for the religious holiday that they don’t recognize!


106 posted on 04/06/2012 7:30:25 AM PDT by tired&retired
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To: Moonman62

There was a spring in a blow-up mattress?


107 posted on 04/06/2012 7:47:04 AM PDT by null and void (Day 1172 of America's ObamaVacation from reality [Heroes aren't made, Frank, they're cornered...])
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To: Celerity
The cars next to the bus also took quite a bit of heat damage.

I once drove by an empty school bus fully engulfed on an
interstate. I was probably in the 3rd lane, with the bus in the
breakdown lane.

I could feel the IR from the fire through the closed passenger
window on my skin while in the drivers seat in my A/C'd car
doing at least 55mph while passing it by.

108 posted on 04/06/2012 7:51:52 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Moonman62
The bus ran over a mattress and the springs ruptured the gas tank.

One commenter had an interesting statement on how the gas tanks are supposedly made to withstand collisions but not a mattress spring?

109 posted on 04/06/2012 7:54:26 AM PDT by jersey117 (The Stepford Media should be sued for malpractice)
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To: Ezekiel

Maybe Dateline NBC doing another ‘ruptured fuel tank’ special episode.


110 posted on 04/06/2012 8:25:39 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: garandgal

“And, the King-sized mattress went....right...into...the...POOL, and immediately sank to the bottom”

The customer ordered a mattress and was delivered a water bed instead.


111 posted on 04/06/2012 8:28:15 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Jonty30

Dry run?


112 posted on 04/06/2012 8:32:42 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God! ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Celerity

How does one drive over a MATRESS? Wouldn’t you see it in the road?

I see cardboard boxes in the road and am not stupid enough to drive over them with my car.

It could be
A) empty
B) filled with puppies
C) filled with engine parts
D) filled with explosives

Why play the odds?


113 posted on 04/06/2012 8:41:17 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Barack Obama continued to sponsor Jeremiah Wright after he said "G.D. AMERIKKA!"Where's the outrage?)
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To: My Favorite Headache

TLTBIBTF”INT”.

(Too late to be IN B4 THE FIRST “IT’S NOT TERRORISM”)


114 posted on 04/06/2012 8:46:31 AM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Lazamataz

Having known some firemen, that’s a term they use.


116 posted on 04/06/2012 10:00:54 AM PDT by Fire_on_High (WTB new tagline, PST!)
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To: Colorado Doug

I don’t buy any of it. I have seen no other source reporting this story and it seems to me that if a bus explodes, takes out 6 cars...well it would make a blip on the radar screen.

I have all the news wires on Twitter and none reported this story.


117 posted on 04/06/2012 1:02:09 PM PDT by Outlaw Woman (The biggest Hate group in America is located in the White House, Congress & DOJ)
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To: Yehuda

I doubt a diesel soaked mattress could get enough O2 to burn under a slow moving bus. Until a dip or bump dislodged it. Then Look Out!


118 posted on 04/06/2012 3:02:55 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: My Favorite Headache

Mattress springs punctured an MTA Bus Gas Tank?
Not buying.


119 posted on 04/06/2012 3:03:20 PM PDT by CelesteChristi
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To: Lil Flower

It’s certainly not out of the question.


120 posted on 04/06/2012 3:36:28 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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