A two-lane snow-covered bridge collapsed in Pittsburgh early Friday, prompting rescuers to rappel nearly 46 metres while others formed a human chain to help rescue multiple people from a dangling bus. 9News
early Friday , prompting rescuers to rappel nearly 46 metres while others formed a human chain to help rescue multiple people from a dangling bus.was set to visit the city on a pre-planned trip to press for his $1 trillion infrastructure bill, which includes bridge maintenance.
Sam Wasserman, a spokesperson for Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, said a few hours after the collapse that officials were evaluating the scene and an urban search-and-rescue team was still combing the area for any other possible victims. About two hours after the collapse, Brandolph said, one of the passengers was on another bus when the passenger began complaining of injuries and was taken to a hospital. The driver and other passenger were not hurt, according to Brandolph.
Vehicles that were on a bridge when it collapsed are visible, Friday Jan. 28, 2002, in Pittsburghs East End. When the bridge collapsed, rescuers rappeled nearly 150 feet while others formed a human chain to help rescue multiple people from the dangling bus. "It sounded like a weather phenomenon more than anything," said Douglas Gwilym, who was shovelling about an inch of snow when he heard the noise. "It was all I had to compare it to — it was this odd, whooshing sound.""I hope it's a wake-up call to the nation that we need to make these infrastructure investments," Fetterman said.
The collapse came hours before US President Joe Biden was set to visit the city on a pre-planned trip to press for his $1 trillion infrastructure bill, which includes bridge maintenance There were minor injuries from the collapse but no fatalities, said authorities, who also said they were flying drones to make sure no one is under any collapsed sectionsGreg Barnhisel lives about a quarter-mile from where the bridge collapse, so he and his wife went to see it on foot, he told CNN.
"Thankfully, schools were on a two-hour delay for weather," Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman told CNN's"So the traffic was less than it would have been normally on a normal day, but it's surreal to see this bridge."Asked about the collapse coming the same day of the President's visit, Fetterman, a Democrat, said, "This is a horrible way to underscore just how critical our infrastructure needs are in this country.
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