06-10-2016, 06:35 AM
And a good Friday morning to ya all.... Not suppose to get too much over 100 today with the chance of rain. That may help those firefighter that are battling that fire up in Yarnell. That's the town where they lost all those fire hot shots a few years ago. Right now they're evacuating people living north of the town and have some 200 firefighter, a DC10 and some helicopters fighting the blaze. This is just one of some 20 wildfires in Arizona right now.
I've mentioned before that they are building an overpass on Bell Rd., (a major street that runs east & west across the valley) that will span over US60 (Grand Ave.) and the BNSF mainline. Well, yesterday, they dropped a 50" girder across the tracks ,injuring two workers. One was harnessed to the girder and fell some 40'. Apparently it didn't damage the tracks since they resumed train traffic once the girder was removed. I'm sure OSHA didn't approve of that move so quickly, but BNSF surely did. Between that and the wildfires, there was little else on the local news yesterday.
I've mentioned before that they are building an overpass on Bell Rd., (a major street that runs east & west across the valley) that will span over US60 (Grand Ave.) and the BNSF mainline. Well, yesterday, they dropped a 50" girder across the tracks ,injuring two workers. One was harnessed to the girder and fell some 40'. Apparently it didn't damage the tracks since they resumed train traffic once the girder was removed. I'm sure OSHA didn't approve of that move so quickly, but BNSF surely did. Between that and the wildfires, there was little else on the local news yesterday.
Don (ezdays) Day
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD
Board administrator and
founder of the CANYON STATE RAILROAD