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“This is Mike Slayden, reporting live in Atlanta from Peachtree DeKalb Airport. As commuter planes continue to trickle in after the FAA’s closure of US airspace, fire crews are battling a huge blaze around the airport’s fuel depot. You can see the thick plumes of smoke billowing violently behind me. This blaze was threatening to spiral out of control, but seems to be nearly contained now. Now listen to this. One witness tells WBS News that he passed a stopped motorist here on Buford Highway, just adjacent to the fuel tanks. Allegedly, the stopped motorist threw something towards the fuel depot. This all happened moments before an explosion took place. The vehicle then sped off. Local residents have complained for years that the airport’s fuel depot, which sits just thirty yards off the
