Fire under I-95 in Philadelphia causes section to collapse, closing interstate in both directions

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A ample conveyance occurrence nether an elevated conception of Interstate 95 successful Philadelphia caused a immense information of the interstate to collapse, closing the road successful some directions, authorities said.

Video from the country showed a monolithic slab covering an full conception of the northbound lanes collapsed onto the aboveground roadway successful northeast Philadelphia. Officials said determination were nary contiguous reports of injuries.

Capt. Derek Bowmer of the Philadelphia occurrence section said exigency crews responding soon earlier 6:30 a.m. Sunday to an mishap study recovered dense occurrence from a conveyance oregon vehicles. Early reports indicated that the conveyance whitethorn person been a tanker truck, but officials said that hadn't yet been confirmed. The occurrence was reported to beryllium nether control.

Bowmer said the northbound lanes were gone and the southbound lanes were "compromised" owed to vigor from the fire. He besides said runoff from the occurrence oregon possibly compromised state lines were causing explosions underground. Officials said they were besides acrophobic astir the biology impacts of runoff into the adjacent Delaware River.

"Today's going to beryllium a agelong day. And obviously, with 95 northbound gone and southbound questionable, it's going to beryllium adjacent longer than that," said Dominick Mireles, manager of Philadelphia's Office of Emergency Management. Heavy operation instrumentality would beryllium required to commencement to region the debris, helium said.

The exigency absorption bureau said different streets were closed for the effect and urged radical to debar the area. They besides said they planned to motorboat a drone to measure the damage.