BIG RIG BURNS ON FREEWAY.Byline: City News Service A big rig Big Rig was a punk band from the San Francisco Bay Area fronted by singer/songwriter Jesse Michaels. Michaels performed with the group after the break up of his previous project, Operation Ivy, and before forming the band Common Rider. full of groceries was destroyed Friday after it caught fire on the westbound Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. at the Woodman Avenue off-ramp in Sherman Oaks. The rig was first reported on fire on the shoulder of the freeway just after 6:30 a.m., a California Highway Patrol dispatcher Software that determines what pending tasks should be done next and assigns the available resources to accomplish it. It may execute other programs or generate a list for human operators to follow. See scheduler. said. Within 15 minutes, TV news helicopters showed what appeared to be a completely destroyed rig. Several lanes of the freeway were shut down for more than two hours as a Caltrans crew cleaned up the debris, said CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Officer Frank Sansone. The CHP did not know what caused the rig to catch fire. The driver was treated at the scene for minor injuries but was not taken to the hospital, said Bob Collis of the Los Angeles City Fire Department. No other vehicles were involved. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Firefighters douse douse 1 also dowse v. doused also dowsed, dous·ing also dows·ing, dous·es also dows·es v.tr. 1. To plunge into liquid; immerse. See Synonyms at dip. 2. a Vons produce truck on the westbound Ventura Freeway at Woodman Avenue. Gene Blevins/Special to the Daily News |
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