Photos show the ‘remarkable devastation’ of the I-95 collapse in Philadelphia which could take months to repair
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Mark Fusetti, who was driving to pick up his son at the time of the incident, said he initially thought the smoke was coming from a brush fire.
“I realized what happened when I looked in my rearview mirror,” Fusetti told CNN’s Jim Acosta. “I see 95 – all of the cars stopping and then I learned, shortly after that the road had just collapsed and what was really going on.”
Source: CNN
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It is still unclear whether the driver was trapped in the 8,500-gallon-capacity truck. Currently, no injuries have been reported as a result of the incident.
“We have to get in and see what we think happened with the tanker truck,” Jennifer Homendy, the head of the National Transportation Safety Board, told CNN.
Source: CNN
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Investigators will examine both the truck and the structural integrity of the bridge to better determine both the cause of the fire and the events that led to the collapse.
“There are lots of different scenarios,” Homedy told CNN.
Source: CNN
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“In addition to road closures, we expect delays of trash collection and SEPTA bus routes in the area,” Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney said at a press conference.
Repairs and reconstruction are estimated to take months.
Source: CNN
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Shapiro told reporters that US Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg vowed to provide the state with “whatever resources needed to rebuild I-95, in a safe and expeditious manner.”
While Buttigieg said his agency would do whatever it could to help locals address disruptions “swiftly,” he clarified that swiftly would not mean “overnight.”
“We’re talking about major structural work,” Buttigieg said at an event hosted by the American Council of Engineering Companies.
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“One of the problems with this stretch of 95 is there really are not great, perfect alternates,” said Matt Pellam, a traffic reporter on the local ABC affiliate.
“Over the next few days, I think people are going to try out different options to see which is least awful.”
Source: New York Times
AP Photo/David Goldman
Just as in Philadelphia, a fire caused an overpass bridge to collapse a portion of Interstate 85 running through Atlanta on March 30, 2017.
Three people were charged with “maliciously” setting the fire under the overpass. They were believed to have gathered under the bridge to smoke crack when the fire was lit. The fire ultimately eviscerated pipes that had been stored under the overpass for more than a decade.
The National Transportation Safety Board also determined that the Georgia Department of Transportation played a role in the devastation for storing the pipes under the bridge.
Source: Washington Post
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