The incident happened on Fern Hollow Bridge near Forbes and Braddock avenues hours before President Joe Biden was scheduled to visit the city to talk about infrastructure, according to officials and WPXI.
“With the Fern Hollow Bridge seeing more than 14,000 cars daily, it’s critical that we act quickly to reconstruct it so that commerce can continue, and life is not interrupted,” said Gov.
“The next time, we don’t need headlines saying someone was killed,” he said, according to WPXI.
28: Search and rescue crews from Lancaster and Gettysburg traveled across the state to help try to find any potential victims of Friday’s bridge collapse.
And while this was going on, they tell me the gas leak was — explain what you said to me about the noise,” Biden said, according to WPXI.
Biden landed in Pittsburgh to tour Carnegie Mellon’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative and to speak about manufacturing, infrastructure and other topics.
We have a lot of them, and they’re routinely inspected,” Jones told CNN.
The bridge, according to WPXI, was last inspected in September and received a poor rating at the time.
“This collapse is just the latest in a long line of preventable, man-made disasters that prove what so many of us in Pennsylvania and around the country have been saying for years: Our infrastructure is failing our people.
28: The families that had to be evacuated from their homes because of a gas leak have been allowed to return after a gas leak, caused by the collapse has been stopped and gas service has been restored to the properties, WPXI reported.
But with him coming today, to talk about this infrastructure bill, to discuss why this funding is so important, today is significant,” Gainey said, according to CNN.
Thank you @PghPublicSafety for the quick response and thank you to the county, state, and federal governments for the cooperation and assistance.
John Fetterman, who is from the Pittsburgh area and is running for the U.S.
“Due to the impact of a bridge collapse in the East End and high call-offs among bus drivers, all K-5, K-8 and 6-8 and Special Schools will transition to remote learning.
28: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said via Twitter that Biden has been told of the collapse and the administration is in touch with state and local officials.
Original story: No deaths have been reported in connection with the collapse, authorities said.
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