Gas tanker explodes - 6:21 a.m. update

A two-mile stretch of Interstate 75 just north of Detroit remains closed as authorities investigate a fuel tanker explosion and overpass collapse

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[MegaNewyorkyankees]

@alphafirefighter more worse than watching a 927 foot boat in istanbull turkey on destroyed in seconds 2 days of battling the blaze that's like should be the number one topic on twitter face book sucks dick right

[TitaniumByFire]

Ok, thanks for the info, never knew that.

[alphafirefighter]

heat cracks the concrete by expanding the water inside (yes even when concrete dries there is still water inside it), this allows heat to reach the rebar which alows the structure to start to bend and once that starts to happen it is only a matter of time before it collapses, same thing happened to the towers on 9/11

[TitaniumByFire]

The rebar theory sounds like it could be true.

[yerk3]

The heat may have caused the rebar to expand, breaking the surrounding concrete, or else it may have caused the steel to lose its structural integrity. I'm not a scientist or an engineer anything, but it sounds plausible.

[TitaniumByFire]

How can heat alone, even that kind of heat cause a bridge to collapse ????????? The truck had to have hit a piling.