June 22, 2025 • 16 mins
Mindy and Boots speak with callers about recent news of an overturned tanker truck on I-270 North causing fire.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Try to get Are we going to do much safety?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Alrighty, we are back on a Sunday afternoon, a hot
Sunday afternoon. Those of you who've been waiting for summer
weather to get here, you know, these hot, sticky days,
full of sunshine. They're here now and it's going to
be dangerously hot for the next few days. So just
prepare yourselves. Get out in the sunshine if you want to,
but just drink lots and lots of water. Any updates
(00:24):
on that situation.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I think it looks like it's two seventy and one
sixty one on the outside of two seventy heading eastbound
towards Sunbury Road. I just hope it don't burn up
the bridge, a bridge going right over there. And last
time we had a tanker fire at seventy and on
the west side in two seventy, it burnt that bridge
up so bad. Seventy was a mess for about a
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year or so. You know, tanker look what Look what
the fire did to nine to eleven towers that had
more gas in that tanker than one of those planes.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I think let's take one of the phone calls. One
of our listeners is calling in with more information on
that Jen. Did you drive by that situation?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh? Yeah, that was pretty scary. We were on our
way home from West Virginia, my son and Iron were
heading around two seventy there and we see the smoke.
I mean it's like a ton a ton of black smoke.
And it was kind of in the distance because this
was when we were by east not Eastlands, but when
we are closer to east Land Mall. Remember that old mall?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh yeah, huh.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So when we were driven by there, we actually saw
the smoke, and then as we kept getting closer, I
was like, man, this is like right next to us.
So I was a little nervous driving by it, thinking,
yeah you get I mean the planes were shooting up
and it looked like it was like going to come
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on our side of the highway.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That is scary. So was it like at stop?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, well yeah, the cars stopped, so basically you'd have
to like just leave your car and run. So I
was thinking of escape route striving.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Are you really taking it to that extreme that it
was that bad?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, I'm not kidding. It was very hot. Rolled down
the window for you know, brief second just to like
get a better shot what it smelled like it smelled
like gasoline or you know, yah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
It was really a.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Dark, lighter fluid on the cookout. Well, I just I
just looked up something. A small tanker truck holds three
thousand gallons of gas, A large one eleven holds eleven thousand,
six hund gallons. Now check us out. A seven twenty
seven plane that we typically fly on holds ten thousand
and seven hundred gallons. So it's like a plane one
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down that much gas.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, you know what, I honestly thought that's what it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Was really because it was big, long.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, I couldn't tell that. Well, no one, we didn't
know what it was. We were just driving by, so
I thought. I kept looking stuff up and there was
like the helicopter above and see what news channeling was.
But you could see like tons of slots and fire
trucks coming. But we didn't know what it was. We
just fall the fire the smoke and it was like
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coming towards that bridge, and you're right that overcome might
be torched.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, I'm sure things are worse because it is so
hot outside and so dry. Right now, is it the
one sex On bridge?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It's under or to the bridge closer to seventy.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, it was the one sixty one there, so whatever
that that roadway is right, there's I don't know for sure.
I don't know if it was loop to get on
to two seventy or if it was like the bridge
to you know, just exit off and there. I'm not sure.
When you're past it now, Jen, Oh yeah, I'm waiting now.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
But this is my friends. Jen, this is what you know.
Tell everybody what you just were with your son. This
is the coolest thing, Boots.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Where were you? Jen?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Summerville, West Virginia. And then we went to the New
River Gorge and but just we went camping. That's a
very annual camping trip.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Not his fiance, not her husband, just mother and son.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They've started an annual camping trip. But of course this
is just the second year for it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Hopefully continue to be a lot. When we're driving and
he's like.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I bet he is like, shut up, well, thanks for
calling in.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I know a lot of people were asking questions about
that fire and that plume of smoke, so.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Engine, yeah, I am too scaring. Everyone is safe so far,
so whopfully stayed that way, all right? Guys, have a
good one you thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And what's ironic is this This blows up the day
after we attack, right, So that kind of popped them.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
When people were thinking right now, that had to cross
their mind with the guy deliberately, with the terrorist guy
from the inside cells that biden let in and had
a truck and ran into the bridging buttment to blow
it up.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
But why would you blow a freeway you need to
blow up that?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Would you see a plu of smoke like that? In
fire and everything and anything probably goes through your mind,
of course, even well.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm glad I did set you up today to come
in because if I would have went down Sunbury Road,
I'd have been probably stuck in traffic.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
See so I she saved me, I saved you, and
then you almost killed me by going one hundred and
thirty miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I had Beth Johnson just texting and see it and
see what my buddy says. She's on her flight front.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Hey, we got another caller. Let's take this caller right
now before we go to break another call about that
plume of smoke along the highway. Go ahead, collar.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Hello, Mendy, Yes it's hooty, it's hooty.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh hooty, hey hoody. Did you drive by it too?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I did so. I was reliving my news breaking news
days as my daughter because we're at the progress Stone
Ridge and you can see this. I mean, it looked
like it was a massive explosion. We thought it was
something bigger than that, and so by the time we
got around there, you can see the flames above the trees.
I mean you could feel the heat as we made
our way around one into seventy you can see, I mean,
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it literally looked like the whole area was engulfed in flames.
The smoke was so thick. People were pulling over on
the side of the highway, stopping getting out the cars,
taking pictures for at least a good minutes. It was
that massive.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You have covered so many things. Who they used to
be in NBC for photo journalist and was one of
my best friends at the station and we worked on
so many things together. You've covered so much spot news.
Was this one of the worst things you've seen?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Did you shoot it too?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I didn't shoot it because I don't want to like
relive those days and get those ank things to go
back to the news, but it was probably one of
the most one of the more serious evis I've ever seen.
I mean, it was actually all in real time. It
was surreal, and the traffic that was just around it
and people, you can tell people were very concerned as
to what was going on. Lots of fire response, lots
of police response to kind of courting off the area
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to keep people away, and then also just I think
they're just waiting to get it, so some remnists of
control of it because it was blazing for a while.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Okay, so it looks like it's northbound two seventy side.
It looks like it's underneath the one sixty one bridge
that would go westbound, and if you go eastbound, you're
going towards New Albany's from the picture Beth just sent
me from Honor Flight. It's underneath that bridge. So the
bad part is that would be the bridge going over
towards where the old one to sixty one was nice
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back in the old dates and they had restaurants.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Safety.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay, hoody, we're so glad you called it, and I'm
glad you're okay, buddy, take care of man.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Oh yes, thanks. You guys have a good.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
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Speaker 2 (07:41):
We're so glad you were with us on this Sunday afternoon,
a very hot Sunday afternoon. We are taking your phone
calls about President Trump dropping bombs on three nuclear facilities
in Iran. You have thoughts, feelings, opinions on that or
also right now, all lanes of Interstate two to seventy
north at State Route one sixty one that's in northeast
(08:02):
of Columbus, they're closed down right now because of a
fuel tanker DRUP that reportedly ran off the road overturned
and that's what caused this huge fire, billowing plumes of
smoke that so many people are driving around right now.
And we've been taking callers about that. We have one more.
Let's go to Jeff. Jeff, thanks for calling into RAW.
What have you seen or noticed?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Okay, I got to mute this, I think and see
if I can hear you. Bill, I am on my
speak car speakerphone.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, I'm gonna hear of that real quick.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Okay, let me see if you're hearing me.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Good.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Okay. I was driving on two seventy, beginning off of
one at one sixty one, headed east bound to go
to my daughter's okay, and all of a sudden, traffics
flowed down. It came to almost to stop, and I
looked up the ramp and there was another car on
the far side of the bridge that had just gotten through.
And I looked because that was the way I was
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trying to go, and I decided not to go that way,
so I followed one sixty one eastbound towards Sunbury Road exit, okay,
And as I drove through there, I'm looking looking down.
I can see the semi on its side pulling golf
and flames and it started exploding. We had five explosions
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as we were driving passed the Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So let me ask you, it's under the bridge on
to seventy. It's the bridge. It would go one sixty
one westbound, correct, right, it's under that bridge. I thought, okay, yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Well it's yeah, it's well, I guess I would say
yeah westbound because I was going to be heading one
sixty one west again.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So yeah, so the going ton.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Already going back into Columbus off.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Okay, So it was, and.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
It was under that bridge on its side. It was
a big black semi with lots of chrome and it
was fully engulfed in.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Plane and you just went over that.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
I went over it. It was I was through there about one,
right around one, and it couldn't have been it couldn't
have happened any earlier than one thirty six, So that
was about it, probably about one twenty eight, Yeah, about
an hour ago, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Is that one of the worst things you've seen on
the road when you've been driving anywhere?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a bad mess I
had and I saw the smoke, and the smoke is
what made me decide not to go over top of
the bridge, because I figure that bridge is done. It's
going to be down for another two months, yeah, while
they restore. And then I decided to go one sixty
one east to get past it, so I didn't have
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to set because I knew I would be like one
of the first two or three cars sitting waiting, and
I'm like, I got I think it's safe to go.
So I went ahead and went and as I was
passing it, it was down below me, but about the
equivalent of four or five lanes away. And it started
to exploding. It sounded like a real big bass drum
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just booming at him. And yeah, we had he increased
and everything else.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Did you think terrorist at first or what? Did? What?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
No? No terrorist for me, I I didn't think so.
I just figured it was an accident. I'm afraid that
he hit the bridge and flipped. It was definitely on
its side, and I'm I'm you know, I do wonder
what happened, what caused him to flip.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
But.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
He's If he didn't get out of that truck instantly,
he didn't survive it.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Someone called in and said that they thought that a
car cut him off and then that caused him to turn,
overturn and then explode.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I didn't see it. I didn't see it car in
front of him, but the flames and the smoke were
so heavy all around it that I didn't see what
he was carrying. I could see this the front of
the semi to the point where I recognized it. As
you know, it would have been one of the beautiful,
very expensive semis, sure black with lots of real nice
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chrome and everything, and it wasn't golf. It was even
at that you were just seeing through the smoke to
see this truck.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So I'm looking at Google Earth right now. There's two bridges. Okay.
There's the one sixty one bridge that where all the
lanes go through. Then there's a second bridge just north
of that. It's a single lane bridge that takes you
up over two seventy heading towards Columbus, the opposite of
New Albany. And it was underneath that little bridge, right yep,
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the single lane Okay, that one all right.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Well, hopefully that able to get out safely because my gosh,
you hoped that it wasn't a fatal tanker truck explosion
as well.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
I'm hut down, thank you, And yeah that I was
just playing on that highway being shut down for the
rest of the day. Oh yeah, you're probably using that
bridge for for a couple of months, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
And that's two seventy northbound, the one sixty one eastbound.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
They just rebuilt all that through their time.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
What one westbound?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah? From east Yeah, you're coming from easton. You're going
on that one sixty one path to the right. If
you go right, you go towards New Auburne. If you
go left, you go up over the bridge and just
send down the one sixty one.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Just avoid that area to seventy and one sixty one
by Easton avoided if you can. Jeff, thank you for
listening and thanks for calling in. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Wow, you have a credit. Thank you. It's got another
text from Susan Barr. She said, my fire guy said
they're bringing in an air crash truck because of the
size of the fire.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So in other words, you ask her if the driver's okay,
if he.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Was able to choose, and do you have any reports
on the.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Driver and any injuries at all.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Which she's talking about your CM yellow tanker trucks at
the airport that they went on our flight land. They
shoot the arch the big military that they're they're rolling
one of them right now and put it out because
they use that means we're putting foam on it. It's
burning so bad that bridge is.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
To I'm sure it's burning so bad, like we said,
with this extreme heat that only intensifies it and makes
it worse on the drive. Okay, okay, thanks Chris.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
The driver is the tanker overturn of the driver is
in the hospital and is in a stable condition.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Okay, well that's not bad then, you know, at least stable,
it's not critical, and at least he's still breathing.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
The car I'm looking at the picture the car that
hit him as a Chevy impallor Cobalt.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, at least it wasn't your Corvette boots.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
No, I would have avoided anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
When was he taken to the hospital, Chris, did it say.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
It?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Did not say it just but that just came in. Yeah,
it came in like six minutes ago from NBC.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I has got that too for another guy, Thanks Will Preston.
He said, driver as a stable condition anytime you roll here,
let me show this with two because of neck injuries.
And I've done a lot of police ride alongs. Ride alongs,
and when there's a rollover, typically if it's not close
to a hospital, life flight you instantly. And if it's
a rollover and they can transport you rapidly in a
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regular ambulance, they'll move you because you don't know if
your neck's broke. Because shock, I mean, you just rolled
a truck at seventy mile hour, a tanker truck. Then
it blows up. You're in shock so PTSD type shock,
so who knows if your next even broke. A lot
of people don't even realize it, so it's definitely the
attorneys have made them do that because firemen don't take
you in and you get hurt and you can blame
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in the city, so they're using every precaution of it.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, the good thing is the driver is in stable
condition at the hospital, no fatalities, no other injuries that
we know of, but please avoid that area. Two seventy northbound,
one sixty one westbound around the Easton area lanes are
closed now and we've been told that they'll stay that way.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Eighty five hundred gallons are burning. Eighty five hundred. That
took down one of the twin towers.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Eighty five hundred gallons.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Burning, so that this put this perspective. The average car
has twenty gallons of gas in it. Okay, so let's.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Do this eighty five hundred burning right now, divided by
wonder why so many people have been seeing that.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That's like four hundred and twenty five cars burning. The
average car has twenty gallons, sometimes fifteen. It's is whu's
twenty for the math, So four hundred and twenty five
car gas tanks are blowing up right now under that bridge. Wow,
and that'd be one full airplane because the airplane I
looked up holds a seven to twenty seven, holds seventy
seven hundred to ten thousand, seven hundred, depending on its
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flight path.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
All Right, we gotta go a break.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
Rob Mini Boots on news Radio six ten
Try to get Are we going to do much safety?
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Alrighty, we are back on a Sunday afternoon, a hot
Sunday afternoon. Those of you who've been waiting for summer
weather to get here, you know, these hot, sticky days,
full of sunshine. They're here now and it's going to
be dangerously hot for the next few days. So just
prepare yourselves. Get out in the sunshine if you want to,
but just drink lots and lots of water. Any updates
(00:24):
on that situation.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
I think it looks like it's two seventy and one
sixty one on the outside of two seventy heading eastbound
towards Sunbury Road. I just hope it don't burn up
the bridge, a bridge going right over there. And last
time we had a tanker fire at seventy and on
the west side in two seventy, it burnt that bridge
up so bad. Seventy was a mess for about a
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year or so. You know, tanker look what Look what
the fire did to nine to eleven towers that had
more gas in that tanker than one of those planes.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I think let's take one of the phone calls. One
of our listeners is calling in with more information on
that Jen. Did you drive by that situation?
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Oh? Yeah, that was pretty scary. We were on our
way home from West Virginia, my son and Iron were
heading around two seventy there and we see the smoke.
I mean it's like a ton a ton of black smoke.
And it was kind of in the distance because this
was when we were by east not Eastlands, but when
we are closer to east Land Mall. Remember that old mall?
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Oh yeah, huh.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
So when we were driven by there, we actually saw
the smoke, and then as we kept getting closer, I
was like, man, this is like right next to us.
So I was a little nervous driving by it, thinking,
yeah you get I mean the planes were shooting up
and it looked like it was like going to come
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on our side of the highway.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
That is scary. So was it like at stop?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Yeah, well yeah, the cars stopped, so basically you'd have
to like just leave your car and run. So I
was thinking of escape route striving.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Are you really taking it to that extreme that it
was that bad?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, I'm not kidding. It was very hot. Rolled down
the window for you know, brief second just to like
get a better shot what it smelled like it smelled
like gasoline or you know, yah, I don't know.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
It was really a.
Speaker 1 (02:23):
Dark, lighter fluid on the cookout. Well, I just I
just looked up something. A small tanker truck holds three
thousand gallons of gas, A large one eleven holds eleven thousand,
six hund gallons. Now check us out. A seven twenty
seven plane that we typically fly on holds ten thousand
and seven hundred gallons. So it's like a plane one
(02:43):
down that much gas.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Well, you know what, I honestly thought that's what it.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Was really because it was big, long.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Yeah, I couldn't tell that. Well, no one, we didn't
know what it was. We were just driving by, so
I thought. I kept looking stuff up and there was
like the helicopter above and see what news channeling was.
But you could see like tons of slots and fire
trucks coming. But we didn't know what it was. We
just fall the fire the smoke and it was like
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coming towards that bridge, and you're right that overcome might
be torched.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Yeah, I'm sure things are worse because it is so
hot outside and so dry. Right now, is it the
one sex On bridge?
Speaker 1 (03:22):
It's under or to the bridge closer to seventy.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Well, it was the one sixty one there, so whatever
that that roadway is right, there's I don't know for sure.
I don't know if it was loop to get on
to two seventy or if it was like the bridge
to you know, just exit off and there. I'm not sure.
When you're past it now, Jen, Oh yeah, I'm waiting now.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
But this is my friends. Jen, this is what you know.
Tell everybody what you just were with your son. This
is the coolest thing, Boots.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Where were you? Jen?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Summerville, West Virginia. And then we went to the New
River Gorge and but just we went camping. That's a
very annual camping trip.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Not his fiance, not her husband, just mother and son.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
That's cool.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
They've started an annual camping trip. But of course this
is just the second year for it.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Hopefully continue to be a lot. When we're driving and
he's like.
Speaker 1 (04:24):
I bet he is like, shut up, well, thanks for
calling in.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
I know a lot of people were asking questions about
that fire and that plume of smoke, so.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
Engine, yeah, I am too scaring. Everyone is safe so far,
so whopfully stayed that way, all right? Guys, have a
good one you thanks for listening.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
And what's ironic is this This blows up the day
after we attack, right, So that kind of popped them.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
When people were thinking right now, that had to cross
their mind with the guy deliberately, with the terrorist guy
from the inside cells that biden let in and had
a truck and ran into the bridging buttment to blow
it up.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
But why would you blow a freeway you need to
blow up that?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Would you see a plu of smoke like that? In
fire and everything and anything probably goes through your mind,
of course, even well.
Speaker 1 (05:07):
I'm glad I did set you up today to come
in because if I would have went down Sunbury Road,
I'd have been probably stuck in traffic.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
See so I she saved me, I saved you, and
then you almost killed me by going one hundred and
thirty miles per hour.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
I had Beth Johnson just texting and see it and
see what my buddy says. She's on her flight front.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Hey, we got another caller. Let's take this caller right
now before we go to break another call about that
plume of smoke along the highway. Go ahead, collar.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Hello, Mendy, Yes it's hooty, it's hooty.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
Oh hooty, hey hoody. Did you drive by it too?
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I did so. I was reliving my news breaking news
days as my daughter because we're at the progress Stone
Ridge and you can see this. I mean, it looked
like it was a massive explosion. We thought it was
something bigger than that, and so by the time we
got around there, you can see the flames above the trees.
I mean you could feel the heat as we made
our way around one into seventy you can see, I mean,
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it literally looked like the whole area was engulfed in flames.
The smoke was so thick. People were pulling over on
the side of the highway, stopping getting out the cars,
taking pictures for at least a good minutes. It was
that massive.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
You have covered so many things. Who they used to
be in NBC for photo journalist and was one of
my best friends at the station and we worked on
so many things together. You've covered so much spot news.
Was this one of the worst things you've seen?
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Like?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Did you shoot it too?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I didn't shoot it because I don't want to like
relive those days and get those ank things to go
back to the news, but it was probably one of
the most one of the more serious evis I've ever seen.
I mean, it was actually all in real time. It
was surreal, and the traffic that was just around it
and people, you can tell people were very concerned as
to what was going on. Lots of fire response, lots
of police response to kind of courting off the area
(06:55):
to keep people away, and then also just I think
they're just waiting to get it, so some remnists of
control of it because it was blazing for a while.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Okay, so it looks like it's northbound two seventy side.
It looks like it's underneath the one sixty one bridge
that would go westbound, and if you go eastbound, you're
going towards New Albany's from the picture Beth just sent
me from Honor Flight. It's underneath that bridge. So the
bad part is that would be the bridge going over
towards where the old one to sixty one was nice
(07:26):
back in the old dates and they had restaurants.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Safety.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Okay, hoody, we're so glad you called it, and I'm
glad you're okay, buddy, take care of man.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Oh yes, thanks. You guys have a good.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
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Speaker 2 (07:41):
We're so glad you were with us on this Sunday afternoon,
a very hot Sunday afternoon. We are taking your phone
calls about President Trump dropping bombs on three nuclear facilities
in Iran. You have thoughts, feelings, opinions on that or
also right now, all lanes of Interstate two to seventy
north at State Route one sixty one that's in northeast
(08:02):
of Columbus, they're closed down right now because of a
fuel tanker DRUP that reportedly ran off the road overturned
and that's what caused this huge fire, billowing plumes of
smoke that so many people are driving around right now.
And we've been taking callers about that. We have one more.
Let's go to Jeff. Jeff, thanks for calling into RAW.
What have you seen or noticed?
Speaker 6 (08:23):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Okay, I got to mute this, I think and see
if I can hear you. Bill, I am on my
speak car speakerphone.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Okay, I'm gonna hear of that real quick.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Okay, let me see if you're hearing me.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Good.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Okay. I was driving on two seventy, beginning off of
one at one sixty one, headed east bound to go
to my daughter's okay, and all of a sudden, traffics
flowed down. It came to almost to stop, and I
looked up the ramp and there was another car on
the far side of the bridge that had just gotten through.
And I looked because that was the way I was
(09:03):
trying to go, and I decided not to go that way,
so I followed one sixty one eastbound towards Sunbury Road exit, okay,
And as I drove through there, I'm looking looking down.
I can see the semi on its side pulling golf
and flames and it started exploding. We had five explosions
(09:24):
as we were driving passed the Wow.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
So let me ask you, it's under the bridge on
to seventy. It's the bridge. It would go one sixty
one westbound, correct, right, it's under that bridge. I thought, okay, yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Well it's yeah, it's well, I guess I would say
yeah westbound because I was going to be heading one
sixty one west again.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
So yeah, so the going ton.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Already going back into Columbus off.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Okay, So it was, and.
Speaker 7 (09:53):
It was under that bridge on its side. It was
a big black semi with lots of chrome and it
was fully engulfed in.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Plane and you just went over that.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
I went over it. It was I was through there about one,
right around one, and it couldn't have been it couldn't
have happened any earlier than one thirty six, So that
was about it, probably about one twenty eight, Yeah, about
an hour ago, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Is that one of the worst things you've seen on
the road when you've been driving anywhere?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
Yeah, yeah, it was. It was a bad mess I
had and I saw the smoke, and the smoke is
what made me decide not to go over top of
the bridge, because I figure that bridge is done. It's
going to be down for another two months, yeah, while
they restore. And then I decided to go one sixty
one east to get past it, so I didn't have
(10:46):
to set because I knew I would be like one
of the first two or three cars sitting waiting, and
I'm like, I got I think it's safe to go.
So I went ahead and went and as I was
passing it, it was down below me, but about the
equivalent of four or five lanes away. And it started
to exploding. It sounded like a real big bass drum
(11:09):
just booming at him. And yeah, we had he increased
and everything else.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Did you think terrorist at first or what? Did? What?
Speaker 7 (11:19):
No? No terrorist for me, I I didn't think so.
I just figured it was an accident. I'm afraid that
he hit the bridge and flipped. It was definitely on
its side, and I'm I'm you know, I do wonder
what happened, what caused him to flip.
Speaker 6 (11:38):
But.
Speaker 7 (11:40):
He's If he didn't get out of that truck instantly,
he didn't survive it.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Someone called in and said that they thought that a
car cut him off and then that caused him to turn,
overturn and then explode.
Speaker 7 (11:58):
I didn't see it. I didn't see it car in
front of him, but the flames and the smoke were
so heavy all around it that I didn't see what
he was carrying. I could see this the front of
the semi to the point where I recognized it. As
you know, it would have been one of the beautiful,
very expensive semis, sure black with lots of real nice
(12:21):
chrome and everything, and it wasn't golf. It was even
at that you were just seeing through the smoke to
see this truck.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So I'm looking at Google Earth right now. There's two bridges. Okay.
There's the one sixty one bridge that where all the
lanes go through. Then there's a second bridge just north
of that. It's a single lane bridge that takes you
up over two seventy heading towards Columbus, the opposite of
New Albany. And it was underneath that little bridge, right yep,
(12:49):
the single lane Okay, that one all right.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Well, hopefully that able to get out safely because my gosh,
you hoped that it wasn't a fatal tanker truck explosion
as well.
Speaker 7 (13:00):
I'm hut down, thank you, And yeah that I was
just playing on that highway being shut down for the
rest of the day. Oh yeah, you're probably using that
bridge for for a couple of months, all right.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
And that's two seventy northbound, the one sixty one eastbound.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
They just rebuilt all that through their time.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
What one westbound?
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Yeah? From east Yeah, you're coming from easton. You're going
on that one sixty one path to the right. If
you go right, you go towards New Auburne. If you
go left, you go up over the bridge and just
send down the one sixty one.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Just avoid that area to seventy and one sixty one
by Easton avoided if you can. Jeff, thank you for
listening and thanks for calling in. We appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Wow, you have a credit. Thank you. It's got another
text from Susan Barr. She said, my fire guy said
they're bringing in an air crash truck because of the
size of the fire.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
So in other words, you ask her if the driver's okay,
if he.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Was able to choose, and do you have any reports
on the.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
Driver and any injuries at all.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Which she's talking about your CM yellow tanker trucks at
the airport that they went on our flight land. They
shoot the arch the big military that they're they're rolling
one of them right now and put it out because
they use that means we're putting foam on it. It's
burning so bad that bridge is.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
To I'm sure it's burning so bad, like we said,
with this extreme heat that only intensifies it and makes
it worse on the drive. Okay, okay, thanks Chris.
Speaker 4 (14:25):
The driver is the tanker overturn of the driver is
in the hospital and is in a stable condition.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Okay, well that's not bad then, you know, at least stable,
it's not critical, and at least he's still breathing.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
The car I'm looking at the picture the car that
hit him as a Chevy impallor Cobalt.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Well, at least it wasn't your Corvette boots.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
No, I would have avoided anymore.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
When was he taken to the hospital, Chris, did it say.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
It?
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Did not say it just but that just came in. Yeah,
it came in like six minutes ago from NBC.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
I has got that too for another guy, Thanks Will Preston.
He said, driver as a stable condition anytime you roll here,
let me show this with two because of neck injuries.
And I've done a lot of police ride alongs. Ride alongs,
and when there's a rollover, typically if it's not close
to a hospital, life flight you instantly. And if it's
a rollover and they can transport you rapidly in a
(15:17):
regular ambulance, they'll move you because you don't know if
your neck's broke. Because shock, I mean, you just rolled
a truck at seventy mile hour, a tanker truck. Then
it blows up. You're in shock so PTSD type shock,
so who knows if your next even broke. A lot
of people don't even realize it, so it's definitely the
attorneys have made them do that because firemen don't take
you in and you get hurt and you can blame
(15:38):
in the city, so they're using every precaution of it.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Well, the good thing is the driver is in stable
condition at the hospital, no fatalities, no other injuries that
we know of, but please avoid that area. Two seventy northbound,
one sixty one westbound around the Easton area lanes are
closed now and we've been told that they'll stay that way.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Eighty five hundred gallons are burning. Eighty five hundred. That
took down one of the twin towers.
Speaker 2 (16:01):
Eighty five hundred gallons.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Burning, so that this put this perspective. The average car
has twenty gallons of gas in it. Okay, so let's.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Do this eighty five hundred burning right now, divided by
wonder why so many people have been seeing that.
Speaker 1 (16:18):
That's like four hundred and twenty five cars burning. The
average car has twenty gallons, sometimes fifteen. It's is whu's
twenty for the math, So four hundred and twenty five
car gas tanks are blowing up right now under that bridge. Wow,
and that'd be one full airplane because the airplane I
looked up holds a seven to twenty seven, holds seventy
seven hundred to ten thousand, seven hundred, depending on its
(16:39):
flight path.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
All Right, we gotta go a break.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
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