Posted on 06/23/23
| News Source: CBS News
When a tanker truck hauling 8,000 gallons of gasoline caught fire at I-95 and Cottman Avenue in Philadelphia on June 11, the Philadelphia Fire Department's Engine 38 was first on the scene.
The scene was grim. An overpass on I-95 collapsed. The driver of the tanker truck, 53-year-old Nathan "Nate" Moody, was killed in the incident. A major artery through the city and along the East Coast was impassable.
On Friday, just 12 days later, construction workers and firefighters cheered as Engine 38 crossed over a temporary roadway completed by local crews working around the clock.
"Let this serve as an example of how Pennsylvania can do big things, that when we come together, when we're determined, we can get stuff done," Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said in a news conference.