A portion of a major U.S. highway collapsed in Philadelphia after a vehicle caught fire underneath it, city officials said on Sunday.
Smoke billowed from the rubble of the collapsed section of the northbound lanes of I-95, the main north-south interstate on the East Coast. Video showed emergency vehicles and workers gathered in the area. Traffic in both directions of the eight-lane highway was halted due to concerns about the structural integrity of the remaining southbound lanes.
On a Sunday in the summer, it’s routinely used by beach goers coming home from the Jersey Shore. During the week, it’s crowded with commuters and vehicles traveling to Boston, Baltimore and Washington. "We tried to extinguish the fire...We did upgrade it to a hazmat box because we got reports that it could have been a tanker or something like that," he said.
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