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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 12:11 PM
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Fire rages at Puerto Rico fuel depot
Source: (CNN)

A massive fire raged Friday at a fuel storage complex in Puerto Rico, sending a thick black cloud of smoke over large parts of metro San Juan and forcing firefighters to scramble to keep the blaze from spreading.
Eleven fuel tanks at the Caribbean Petroleum Corp. facility in the city of Bayamon, near San Juan, were ablaze, Gov. Luis Fortuno said in a news release. Firefighters were trying to cool off the remaining 29 to keep them from igniting, he said. The storage complex sits on San Juan's bay....
....Newspaper and TV reports said a 4-inch pipe from a lagoon on the property was broken, preventing firefighters from using water from the lake to battle the blaze....
.....FBI Agent Shawn Deturn confirmed that authorities were looking into graffiti found on at least one San Juan tunnel that mentioned the fire. The spray-painted message at the Minillas Tunnel in San Juan said: "Boom, fire, RIP, Gulf, Soul, ACNF." A second tunnel was reported to have the same message. Officials do not know who or what ACNF is, Deturn said.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/23/puerto.rico.explosion/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn



are they thinking terrorism here?
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imdjh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 01:36 PM
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1. Afro-Caribbean National Front? American Communist National Front?
Edited on Fri Oct-23-09 01:36 PM by imdjh
Don't know what the AC stands for, but the NF almost surely means national front.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 02:18 PM
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2. American Conservative Nationalist Federalists
:shrug:
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jus_the_facts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-23-09 03:01 PM
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3. "Bumpity bumpity bump...my life for you..."
....reminded me of The Stand's TrashCanMan. :(
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