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Portion of Interstate 95 collapses in Philadelphia after tanker fire burns under overpass
6abc TV ^ | June 11 2023 | 6abc Digital Staff

Posted on 06/11/2023 9:07:19 AM PDT by texas booster

Multiple lanes of Interstate 95 northbound in Philadelphia have collapsed after a tanker truck fire erupted underneath an overpass.

The fire broke out around 6 a.m. underneath I-95 near the Cottman Avenue exit in the Tacony section of the city.

Video from Chopper 6 showed the overpass carrying the northbound lanes of the highway were reduced to rubble.

The southbound lanes are also compromised, officials said.

All lanes of the highway are shut down between the exits for Woodhaven Road in Northeast Philadelphia and Aramingo Avenue in the Port Richmond section.

There has been no word on any injuries or if any other vehicles were involved.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bridgeout; i95; philadelphia
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To: texas booster

Here’s a dumb question, but...

That looks like at most 75 feet by 125 feet, including both directions. A 12-inch phlange I-beam costs $200 per foot, installed. Let’s say we put solid I-beams all the way across the entire bridge. Why not rebuild the entire bridge with a mass of pure I-beams. You could get that bridge passable again with $2 million in a matter of a few days.


41 posted on 06/11/2023 9:51:39 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: j.havenfarm

Long range traffic should take Alternative I95/NJ Turnpike.


42 posted on 06/11/2023 9:52:38 AM PDT by Thunder90 (All posts soley represent my own opinions)
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To: glaseatr
Q: What's orange and sleeps six?
A: A Caltrans truck

Former Bay Area resident here.

43 posted on 06/11/2023 9:52:42 AM PDT by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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To: texas booster

The point is that’s WAY more than a 9K-gallon truck. The planes were fueled up for a flight to California. That meant that they were at least 1/3 full. That’s 21,000 gallons.


44 posted on 06/11/2023 9:54:34 AM PDT by dangus ( )
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To: texas booster

That’s the exit I took to get to a friend’s house when I visited her in 2018. Holy crap!


45 posted on 06/11/2023 9:57:13 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: americas.best.days...

Nah, he’ll just destroy the rest of that stretch because it’s racist . . . or something.


46 posted on 06/11/2023 9:57:58 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: glaseatr

A few years ago the same thing happened in Oakland CA.
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It’s happened a few times. There was a similar incident west of Toronto on the 401..... March 25, 1986 at the James Snow Parkway in Milton. Two trucks collided and one was a tanker carrying about 14,000 gallons of gas. The driver was killed and the driver of the other truck was convicted of drunk driving. The overpass didn’t come down at the time but it was damaged enough that it was demolished and rebuilt


47 posted on 06/11/2023 10:10:58 AM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: texas booster

Good news for Taggert Transcontinental


48 posted on 06/11/2023 10:21:20 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Delay Trump’s trial, delay. Elect Trump President. Trump pardons himself.)
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To: going hot

lol
I remember hearing that during the aftermath of 9/11


49 posted on 06/11/2023 10:31:44 AM PDT by RWGinger (LGB)
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To: dangus
Hah!!

You could get that bridge passable again with $2 million in a matter of a few days.

You have obviously never dealt with contracting officers in government.

Start with the City of Philadelphia, County of Philadelphia, the hordes of lesser borough regulators, WOTUS and the EPA (still smarting from another Supreme Court loss), plus (probably including Jersey Boys) anyone evenly remotely connected to I95 from Florida to Maine.

50 posted on 06/11/2023 10:37:48 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Rio

Out infrastructure, in many places, is 4th world level. Just embarrassing.


51 posted on 06/11/2023 10:39:06 AM PDT by riri (What’re y’all talking bout? I just got a new set of Michelins for the house!)
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To: texas booster

Drove south through there about 10 am yesterday. 😲


52 posted on 06/11/2023 10:39:31 AM PDT by nesnah (Infringe - act so as to limit or undermine [something]; encroach on)
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To: Plumres
This is strange for sure. What percentage of I95 has an overpass above it? What day and time would you pick to destroy the bridge with the least amount of traffic? Way too many things just perfect to not suspect it was done on purpose.

I don't know the percentage, but from the airport up through Northeast Philadelphia to Bucks County, there are a number of exits off I-95 that have an overpass above it.

53 posted on 06/11/2023 10:46:29 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: texas booster

One story concrete and steel rebar structure collapses after vehicle fire erupts under structure.

Prolly does the same thing a hundred stories in the air, I bet.


54 posted on 06/11/2023 10:48:29 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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To: fatima; Fresh Wind; st.eqed; xsmommy; House Atreides; Nowhere Man; PaulZe; brityank; Physicist; ...

Pennsylvania Ping!

Please ping me with articles of interest.

FReepmail me to be added to the list.

A very similar incident involving a tanker occurred a couple of years ago in the Harrisburg area at the junction of I-81 and US 322.

It took many months to reconstruct the affected ramp.

One cannot help but wonder if these "events" at critical junctions aren't part of the relentless assymetric warfare being wage against us.

55 posted on 06/11/2023 10:49:07 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: texas booster

I would hate to be the guy at fault. If it is an individual, the loss will exceed his policy limits really quick. Then it is on him.


56 posted on 06/11/2023 11:05:41 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: metmom; Rio

Expect some similar “accident” disrupting Acela within the week.

We are at war, dammit...wake up!


57 posted on 06/11/2023 11:22:04 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: texas booster

Hmmm...
Those danged Iranian drones really have a targeting problem...
Probably launched from the new Cuban chicom base...
Wonder what it was supposed to hit...
😎


58 posted on 06/11/2023 11:43:50 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: texas booster

Has Joe Briben been in Philadelphia lately?

Remember the time he went to Pittsburgh to promote his infrastructure pork fest and a bridge there just happened to collapse?


59 posted on 06/11/2023 11:50:27 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Soros on assisting the Nazis with the Holocaust: "That's when my character was made.")
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To: Fresh Wind

I wonder if this is related to the fires up in The Great White North?


60 posted on 06/11/2023 11:54:12 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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