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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at 6abc.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: bridgeout; i95; philadelphia
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To: going hot

BS. Heat up concrete to cherry red and the steel inside loses all of its strength. Might as well be pasta.

Whilst living in Houston a tanker carrying ammonia blew up in an underpass. Blew the concrete right off the rebar. Like a human skeleton. Took weeks to replace since all of the work had to take place around the other 6+ lanes in the same area.


61 posted on 06/11/2023 11:54:33 AM PDT by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: bobbo666
Dude, I was being sarcastic. See later posts.

I am very familiar with hot iron and steel.

I make stuff out of both all the time.

62 posted on 06/11/2023 11:57:12 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: texas booster

How are they gonna get the Crack and fentynal up to Mayfair and Rhawnhurst without 95?


63 posted on 06/11/2023 11:59:02 AM PDT by Paddyboy (Roma Omnia Vincit)
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To: texas booster

Imagine all the roads and bridges destroyed by electric vehicle fires that just burn and burn.


64 posted on 06/11/2023 12:00:46 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: texas booster

If you believe the conspiracy theorists about 911, then the answer is obvious. There were deep state operatives planting charges on the overpass, and the tanker fire was just a cover for their operations.


65 posted on 06/11/2023 12:02:40 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: going hot

One end collapsed.


66 posted on 06/11/2023 12:18:26 PM PDT by samiam5
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To: Noumenon
Congrats on your escape. My breakout date is April 25. If this hell hole last that long.
Bon in SJ, live in Brentwood.
67 posted on 06/11/2023 12:23:39 PM PDT by glaseatr (Father of a Marine, Uncle of SGT Adam Estep. A Co. 2/5 Cav. KIA Thurs April 29, 2004 Baghdad Iraq)
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To: samiam5

see #61 above.


68 posted on 06/11/2023 12:26:21 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: going hot

See WTC 7.


69 posted on 06/11/2023 12:33:38 PM PDT by samiam5
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To: samiam5
OK, now please read number 62, and then go back and scroll through the whole thread.

Your keen scrutiny and observational powers are duly noted.

70 posted on 06/11/2023 12:38:40 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: texas booster

Waiting on Transportation Secretary Breastfeeder Buttgig to blame it on Trump in 5-4-3-2....


71 posted on 06/11/2023 12:44:30 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: lightman

If you check out the traffic cameras, looks like exit 32 is where they’re directing traffic off 95. Mile Marker 29 shows the actual site, and then again directing traffic off at mile marker 25.5.

https://www.511pa.com/CameraListing.aspx


72 posted on 06/11/2023 12:47:56 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America.)
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To: going hot

My observational powers are truly legendary.


73 posted on 06/11/2023 1:02:46 PM PDT by samiam5
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To: samiam5

Yeah, well, there is that, Cheers!


74 posted on 06/11/2023 1:04:12 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: dangus

Call Mayor Pete!


75 posted on 06/11/2023 1:16:40 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: Carriage Hill

I wonder how that tanker managed to catch fire at that particular spot?


76 posted on 06/11/2023 1:19:36 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: texas booster
This same thing happened in Oakland, CA in 2007.

-PJ

77 posted on 06/11/2023 1:26:57 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: smokingfrog

Three letters:

G
P
S


78 posted on 06/11/2023 1:29:38 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Well gives some people a job with good pay for a year or two.


79 posted on 06/11/2023 1:37:17 PM PDT by deport
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To: smokingfrog

The Mob + Philly unions stand to make bank on this.


80 posted on 06/11/2023 1:42:29 PM PDT by bobcat62
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