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Cubby and Producer Kristen Drove Through The Turnpike Truck Fire · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The producer. Christa and I were both involved on the
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  Speaker 1: turnpike northbound this morning four am in almost a standstill traffic.
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  Speaker 1: Now it stands still, but at the time at four am,
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  Speaker 1: we'd just gotten the heads up that there was a
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  Speaker 1: truck fire and I think another one. It happened to
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  Speaker 1: like two truck.
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  Speaker 2: Fires, two unrelated truck fires.
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  Speaker 1: Too unrelated, within an exit of each other, and we
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  Speaker 1: got the heads up. We took the truck lanes because
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  Speaker 1: all this was happening in the car lanes. Yes, and
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  Speaker 1: christ and I had the same story because we're on
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  Speaker 1: the turnpike usually at the same time, and it slows
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  Speaker 1: down a little bit, and we felt the heat from
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  Speaker 1: the truck's truck lanes. We felt the heat from the
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  Speaker 1: truck that was on fire in the car lanes.
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  Speaker 2: Do you roll down your window?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was so slow that and the fire was
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  Speaker 1: so big. I'm like, I do want to see if
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  Speaker 1: I could feel it, And I brought my window down
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  Speaker 1: and I felt it. I was going probably twenty miles
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  Speaker 1: an hour.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if I've ever actually felt fire from
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  Speaker 2: you know, felt the heat from like a car fire
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  Speaker 2: on the road, which it means you're how close were you?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, gosh, thirty feet maybe? Oh wow, it it was
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  Speaker 1: really close. I was going like twenty miles an hour.
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  Speaker 1: And then after we passed it, we sped back up. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that was four am this morning. Now you can now
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  Speaker 1: it's all back up.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if both sides are backed up. It's on the
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  Speaker 2: Inner Roadway northbound through Middlesex. Exits ten through thirteen are
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  Speaker 2: all messed up, right, It's like both sides the onlooker traffic.
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  Speaker 2: I love the word rubbernecker. Rubberneckers, rubberneckers are looking at it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: what is it about that? By the way, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you finally you've been waiting so long
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  Speaker 2: when you see an accident, you don't hope nobody's heard it, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: but you've been waiting so long, and then you get
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  Speaker 2: there and it's like, it's crazy when you see a crash, right,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, that's bad.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a total hypocrite because when I'm in the traffic,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, when I get to that wreck, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to look. I'm gonna keep going because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to rubber neck like everybody else. And then lo
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  Speaker 1: and behold, I get to that, and here's me looking
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  Speaker 1: doing exactly what.
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  Speaker 2: I said I do every time. I do the same, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: every time.
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  Speaker 1: Well pack your patients. Turnpike northbound, hot mess.
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  Speaker 2: And hot mess ten through thirteen, ten through thirteen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's two eighty seven and the Goffles Bridge.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we got you extra traffic reports all day long.
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  Speaker 1: One of six point seven light. Not really