Posted on 05/06/2014 10:51:17 AM PDT by C19fan
For almost a year and a half workers had been constructing a bridge to cross the main Interstate that runs between Los Angeles and Las Vegas, but it took just minutes to bring the entire structure crashing to the ground. The blaze began after a construction workers' blowtorch was fanned by strong winds and ignited the wooden scaffolding that was being used to build the new flyover, across Interstate 15 in Herperia, California. Driven by high winds, the fire took hold extremely quickly and began burning the supports surrounding the bridge. Debris began to fell onto the I-15 minutes after the fire began, the road was eventually closed to traffic at 1:30pm yesterday as the $32 million construction project slowly turned into a pile of ash and twisted metal.
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It’s too arid out there to use wood scaffolding. You need to use metal scaffolds...unless it isn’t your money building it.
But the famous metallurgist Rosie O’Donnell assured us that fire can’t melt steel.
For the guilty party, the only honorable thing to do is to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge.
Oh, wait...
LOL! Hope no one was hurt, but man, oh, MAN is that going to leave a mark on his resume. Unless he’s a Democrat. If so, he’ll be promoted to Project Manager when they re-build.
*SNORT*
Chris Christie walked across it?
“reduced the bridge’s wooden support structure to ash and caused steel girders to sag into the freeway below”
Rosie said that can’t happen! Fire can’t do that!
The beams were all going to be cast in place with formwork.
Should have used steel or precast. Length does not seem to be overly long.
Was this job a minority set aside or something? A year plus to build formwork?
Evidently, the concept of a fire team is unknown to this contractor.
Lot's of reptiles running around there!!!
What was going to take the weight of the concrete as they began to pour/pump?
Californian bridges don’t slide into position, then?
Ouch.
NOT my fault.
Bridges are not my area of deconstructive expertise.
Another “Shovel Ready” job?
Apparently the second time in history that fire has ever melted steel.
lowest bidder???? CalTrans strikes again
Bush slowed you down. His fault again. :-)
As a construction guy, maybe you can appreciate what I noticed in the photos:
The erosion control is in place!
Sure, its a desert, but that doesn’t matter - the straw waddles are perfectly staked in place. Courtesy of an ever expanding interpretation of the 1973 Clean Water act. There have probably been inspectors to the site...not to check rebar...but to check the straw waddles.
And I see they had an OSHA approved wooden rail on their falsework. Everything in order.
Except important stuff like a water truck.
“MAN is that going to leave a mark on his resume”
How do you say ‘resume’ in Spanish?
Poor Las Vegas just can’t catch a break. First Bundy and now this. It’s like God doesn’t want people going there to spend their money.
Probable a lot of LA people will skip driving up the I-15 for their weekend forays into Las Vegas.
That's less than 1/6th the cost of the failed Healthcare.gov website. Just sayin'.
In some of the photos, you can see a network of wood posts and I beams under the forms. The caption on one of the photos noted “...and caused steel girders to sag...”. These ‘steel girders’ were not part of the final bridge, but part of the supports for the concrete placement.
I’m pretty sure the bridge was really destroyed in a controlled demolition....by the Illuminati of course.
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