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Highway 99 near Vina now open; closed five hours due to hay tru...

Full story: Chico Enterprise-Record

Highway 99 north of Vina was opened around 4:15 p.m. after a tractor-trailer and its cargo of hay bales caught fire this morning.

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TruckerMatt

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Nov 13, 2009
 
Road blocked for 5 hours...gee, dont' we have enough fire trucks and emergency services??? I guess we need to spend more taxpayers dollars and buy more emergency equipment.
OHNO

Kirkland, WA

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Nov 13, 2009
 
As any horse owner will testify, a wasted, burned up load of hay is just a massive tragedy. So, so sad.
its never enough

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Nov 14, 2009
 
TruckerMatt wrote:
Road blocked for 5 hours...gee, dont' we have enough fire trucks and emergency services??? I guess we need to spend more taxpayers dollars and buy more emergency equipment.
I'm sure that they had plenty of iron and manpower on hand, Hazmat cleaning up, managing traffic, filing reports. Probably three units plus a "commander",couple of Chp for more traffic control and investigetion, plus the Sheriff's rep, maybe a couple of more just for good measure.
Use to be they responded to a accident, tended to the injured, and cleared the lanes. Now it's a three alarm response if a gallon of coolent or, God forbid, fuel hits the pavement.
It's a combination of CYA and job protection that closes highways for hours at at time. There have been several accidents south of Chico that they actually closed the highway, rerouted traffic for relative minor non-injury accidents.
More FF snoozing away on overtime won't change that.
stephens1949

Chico, CA

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Nov 15, 2009
 
its never enough wrote:
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I'm sure that they had plenty of iron and manpower on hand, Hazmat cleaning up, managing traffic, filing reports. Probably three units plus a "commander",couple of Chp for more traffic control and investigetion, plus the Sheriff's rep, maybe a couple of more just for good measure.
Use to be they responded to a accident, tended to the injured, and cleared the lanes. Now it's a three alarm response if a gallon of coolent or, God forbid, fuel hits the pavement.
It's a combination of CYA and job protection that closes highways for hours at at time. There have been several accidents south of Chico that they actually closed the highway, rerouted traffic for relative minor non-injury accidents.
More FF snoozing away on overtime won't change that.
Agreed they, civil service, public safety are all getting drunk out of the pubic trough. It went out of control long before homeland security boosted there ranks.
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