Accident at Medina

Earlier tonight, a tractor at the Medina fair in Ohio exploded. So far, there are 35 injured, 4 dead. The reason for all the injuries is the long oil spill the tractor left, preceding the explosion. The fair is expected to open tomorrow. This just comes to show how safe your neighborhood fairs and carnivals really are. If anybody hears anything else about the accident, please let me know.
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here is a link to the story.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010729/us/fair_explosion_8.html

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ohmigod! that e. coli part at the end is nasty...

This should be posted in the news section. I heard about this on the news.

I don't like fairs because I don't think that the rides are safe because they travel from one city to another. I like amusement park rides because they stay in one place.

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It'll be in the news section tomorrow.

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but it isn't really related to the amusement rides.

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News Section, this is a big topic of discussion.

*** This post was edited by VIPER on 7/30/2001. ***

I hate fair rides, I hate the people who work them, I hate fairs.


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This wasn't a fair ride. This was some antique collector. The general public wasn't allowed to ride on it. I think it was funny that the cops were going to nab this guy for driving it on city streets in Medina. Anyway, these steam engines have a nasty habit of building up too much steam and blowing up.

--Where's Markey when you need him??? *** This post was edited by du8die on 7/30/2001. ***

This isn't really amusement park news. It did happen only a few miles from where I live though, and I got several calls from people asking if I was there. I didn't think I was the county fair type, actually.

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This is horrible. The scary thing is, I used to live in Medina, and my parents always took me to the fair to see the choo-choos.(That's what I called them when I was little.)I feel horrible for the families of those who died. *** This post was edited by SFOfreak on 7/30/2001. ***

Not to sound mean, but the fair was lucky to have it happen when it did, had the fair been open to the public, there could have been 70 more dead.

This this got alot of people in a 100 foot radius, mostly woth burns and shrapnal. Imagine had the fair been open.... major catastrophie....

Things like this are sad....my heart goes out to the families