I-95 in Norwalk reopens just in time for Monday commute after massive blaze torched overpass

Both sides of Interstate 95 successful Norwalk, Connecticut, reopened Sunday, conscionable 3 days aft a tanker motortruck slammed into 2 different vehicles and burst into flames, torching nan road and pouring an overpass.

Now, nan overpass has already been demolished and nan road repaved

Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont announced nan reopening successful a Sunday greeting station on X — successful which he besides commended section and authorities police, section occurrence departments and different authorities agencies for moving truthful quickly to adjacent and hole nan roadworthy pursuing nan catastrophic blaze.

Interstate 95 reopened Sunday aft nan monolithic vessel motortruck mishap and occurrence days prior. @GovNedLamont / X

“Everyone did their part,” Lamont wrote. “I americium impressed and thankful for their dedication … It is genuinely singular to complete this activity successful little than 80 hours.”

The Thursday greeting occurrence erupted astatine astir 5:30 a.m. erstwhile a tanker motortruck carrying 8,500 gallons of gasoline collapsed into a tractor-trailer and different car adjacent nan Fairfield Avenue overpass adjacent Exit 15 successful Norwalk.

The State Police person said a Chevy Camaro was getting connected nan highway’s southbound lane erstwhile it deed nan tanker, which was driving successful nan correct lane, according to NBC New York.

That pushed nan substance motortruck into nan halfway lane, wherever it clipped a tractor-trailer, nan outlet said.

Miraculously, nary 1 was hurt. But nan aggravated power melted nan overpass and compromised nan causeway’s integrity, Lamont said that day.

Connecticut Department of Transportation Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto added, “The harm was beautiful terrible owed to nan magnitude of gasoline that was successful nan tanker ignited straight underneath nan span structure. The alloy did statesman to overheat and warp.”

Video and photos of nan clang showed a spectacular fireball.

This led officials to wholly adjacent that conception of I-95, a awesome East Coast artery that links New York and New England.

The tanker motortruck caught connected occurrence aft crashing into 2 cars. Matthew McDermott

Environmental crews worked to cleanable up gasoline and firefighting foam, arsenic nan Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said nan runoff was corralled successful a retention pond and did not seep into nan Norwalk River.

About 4,000 gallons of unburnt state was offloaded from nan tanker.

Meanwhile, crews removed concrete, alloy and different debris from nan road, NBC New York said.

Then they swept nan roadworthy cleanable earlier milling, paving and re-striping it.