MONTEBELLO, California (AP)-for the second time in a year, Southern California motorists cope with a freeway “Carmageddon.” Butas alternating night loomed Thursday there’s good news: a 10-mile stretch of the road is closed by a gasoline tanker fire could reopen within one day.
In areas where accidents are regular clogging rush-hour routes for hours, the crew called the weight of the tractor to quickly destroy a part of a heavily damaged on State Highway 60 East of downtown Los Angeles.
Tanker carrying nearly Double-9,000 gallons of petrol caught fire under Paramount Boulevard Bridge in Montebello, East of Los Angeles, on Wednesday. The driver was not injured but the intense heat and hot melting trucks, cratered paths underneath and cracked concrete on the kite so that the pieces fell to the sidewalk below.
Authorities immediately closed the freeway, the main line connecting Los Angeles to dozens of bedroom communities to the East. Rush-hour traffic Wednesday night and Thursday morning quickly became bogged down for miles, delaying commuters as much as two hours or so and spilled onto a highway and the road surface.
Engineers determined earlier Thursday that the broken steel and concrete to make the eastern side of the bridge is too dangerous to keep. The concrete core samples are examined to determine whether the West will be pulled down as well.