Officials say the very busy stretch of I-95 will be unusable for at least months.
"You can see flames coming up on the right-hand side through all this black smoke... and the left-hand side was worse," Taormino said. "But the car in front of me really dipped down far."Mark Fusetti, a retired Philadelphia police sergeant, said he was driving south toward the city's airport when he noticed thick plumes of black smoke rising over the highway.
"It was crazy timing," Fusetti said. "For it to buckle and collapse that quickly, it's pretty remarkable."White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a Twitter post that President Joe Biden was briefed on the collapse and that White House officials were in contact with Shapiro and Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney's offices to offer assistance.
The National Transportation Safety Board said it was sending a team to investigate the fire and collapse.
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