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Posted: 9/11/2008 7:57:26 AM EDT

Serious Fire in Tunnel Under English Channel Suspends Traffic

www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,420867,00.html

news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Channel-Tunnel-Closed-Due-To-A-Fire/Article/200809215097705?lpos=UK%2BNews_0&lid=ARTICLE_15097705_Channel%2BTunnel%2BClosed%2BDue%2BTo%2BA%2BFire

Posted: 9/11/2008 7:58:06 AM EDT

[#1]

Link? Hope people are safe.

ETA: Thanks for the link

Posted: 9/11/2008 7:59:25 AM EDT

[#2]

Yikes.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:01:26 AM EDT

[#3]

Asshole smokers tossing lit butts out the window.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:02:38 AM EDT

[#4]

Tunnel fires suck.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:03:14 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Asshole smokers tossing lit butts out the window.

Huh?

Where did you see that listed? Cause was still undetermined.

TRG

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:04:01 AM EDT

[#6]

Can't they just open a window and let some water in to put out the fire?

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:04:07 AM EDT

[#7]

open the window

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:05:14 AM EDT

[#8]

Bush's fault.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:05:33 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
Can't they just open a window and let some water in to put out the fire?

I think so.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:05:46 AM EDT

[#10]

"nothing to see here, not terrorism"

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:06:26 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:
Bush's fault.

Yup. EVERYTHING is Bush's fault. My mom died of a heart attack in 1997 and it was all Bush's fault.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:06:35 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
open the window

.I was thinking that too...............which way would the shit flow??.......towards France .....or England????...............

I hope the casualty list is short!!

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:07:48 AM EDT

[#13]

Man that would SUCK. Hope it isn't too bad.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:18:53 AM EDT

[#14]

This was on wikipedia about the fire.

"As this was on Sept 11, we can definitely conclude it was a terrorist attack[43]"

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:20:58 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Asshole smokers tossing lit butts out the window.

You can't be serious.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:22:32 AM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
Asshole smokers tossing lit butts out the window.

You can't drive through the Chunnel

And the Eurostar windows didn't open last time I was there.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:23:01 AM EDT

[#17]

Fire started on a freight train carrying trucks. Fire is now out.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:23:36 AM EDT

[#18]

LHC caused it. Zombies burrowing towards London now.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:24:02 AM EDT

[#19]

Quoted:
Fire started on a freight train carrying trucks. Fire is now out.

American made trucks, America is to blame

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:25:23 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Bush's fault.

+1

Obama would do something about this, because he is all about hope/change.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:28:13 AM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Asshole smokers tossing lit butts out the window.

You can't drive through the Chunnel

And the Eurostar windows didn't open last time I was there.

Correct

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:31:18 AM EDT

[#22]

i thought you weren't allowed to take fire on a chunnel??!?!?

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:33:07 AM EDT

[#23]

I hope no one was hurt.

Posted: 9/11/2008 8:41:10 AM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Fire started on a freight train carrying trucks. Fire is now out.

American made trucks, America is to blame

Only if driven by an illegal Mexican....

Posted: 9/11/2008 9:08:00 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Bush's fault.

+1

Obama would do something about this, because he is all about hope/change.

+1

He'd part the waters and rescue the people. BSW

Posted: 9/11/2008 9:22:13 AM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
i thought you weren't allowed to take fire on a chunnel??!?!?

Now that made me laugh.

....Damn electricians throwing soldering irons out the window...

Posted: 9/11/2008 9:42:03 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Asshole smokers tossing lit butts out the window.

You can't drive through the Chunnel

And the Eurostar windows didn't open last time I was there.

Smokers who toss lit butts out of car windows are still assholes.

Posted: 9/11/2008 9:44:29 AM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
Bush's fault.

Obviously.

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