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A hazardous fire broke out in San Pedro around noon on Thursday after a big rig carrying lithium ion batteries overturned, causing at least one battery to explode, authorities said.

"We need to avoid what I call super-spreader events. When these things explode or something collides with them, it generates thousands of pieces of debris that then become a hazard to something else that we care about."

"Last year was not this bad... Somebody needs to tell us what has happened. Did a pollution bomb explode somewhere?"

The day before Mr de Menezes was killed by police, would-be suicide bombers targeted the London transport network again, but their devices failed to explode.

Speaking to me from Los Angeles, Susan says she never intended to start making money from her posts - or for her account’s reach to “explode”.