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    Truck full of televisions goes up in flames!

    A semi filled with televisions caught fire today in downtown Los Angeles. From the pictures on the news this looks like these were all scraped TV's. The fire is going to cause a major traffic problem locally, as it happen on a major freeway (Interstate 10) right in the center of the city. All ready calling it a hazmat accident that will effect freeway for at least the next 24 hours. Glad I don't have any reason to go into the city today!


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    Dang under an over pass too. That may cause structural damage.

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    I think they were on their way to Liverpool, New York.
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    I heard that too Kz! They were going to NuLogan Glass or something like that
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    Truck full of televisions goes up in flames!

    Or...Smelting...FAIL!

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    Well the good news, there's no structure damage to the freeway and overpass. They expect to open freeway in a couple of hours, another good job by Los Angles Fireman. The fireman in Southern Cal. are perhaps the best first res-ponders in the world. In just about every major disaster, no matter where it is at, members of LA fire department are sent.

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    A lot of TV recyclers seem to be having fires lately!

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    Less exciting than a truck full of fireworks.

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    wait its that easy just rent a uhaul get insurance pack it full with crt's filled with gas and fireworks of course and drive ooops my cig went in the back lol hmm ideas lol jj no one do this recycle things a better way than the freeway

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    There you go again Travis, thinking "outside the box".

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    Quote Originally Posted by charn View Post
    Less exciting than a truck full of fireworks.
    Then it would have just looked like normal LA, well, parts of it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by travistemple202020 View Post
    wait its that easy just rent a uhaul get insurance pack it full with crt's filled with gas and fireworks of course and drive ooops my cig went in the back lol hmm ideas lol jj no one do this recycle things a better way than the freeway
    The only thing that would stop that from working is the no smoking sign inside of the cab

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    Recycling CRTs from Televisions & Computer Screens - © Nulife Glass

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