Fire On Queensboro Bridge Tonight - Truck With Oxygen and Acetylene Tanks Explode, Expect Heavy Delays
About 7 PM tonight a Roosevelt Island resident spotted smoke coming from the Queensboro Bridge reporting:
Looks like a fire on the bridge at around 7pmand shares these photos
According to the Twitterverse:
Anyone in NYC avoid Queensboro bridge. Big fire on bridge twitter.com/Deanofcomedy/s…
— Dean Obeidallah (@Deanofcomedy) April 7, 2013
Manhattan: Queensboro Bridge Queens Bound. All lanes being closed due to a truck on fire. Expect heavy delays. NY06 twitter.com/NYCityAlerts/s…
— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) April 7, 2013
Manhattan: Queensboro Bridge U/D Truck with oxygen & acetylene tanks exploded. Hazmat requested. Avoid the area. NY06 twitter.com/NYCityAlerts/s…
— New York City Alerts (@NYCityAlerts) April 7, 2013
Saw explosion from Roosevelt Island tram twitter.com/HarveyChin1/st…
— Harvey Chin (@HarveyChin1) April 7, 2013
And the Roosevelt Island Tram just keeps going like all is well #Queensboro#explosion twitter.com/SaxNStrikeouts…
— Seth E. (@SaxNStrikeouts) April 7, 2013
So now we're getting it: Truck with O2 and Acetylene tanks hits overpass on 59th St Bridge. A) Big explosion B) "Truck fire" C) Smoke pallAt approximately 8 PM I spoke with a person coming back to Roosevelt Island on the Tram who told me the fire on the Queensboro Bridge
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) April 8, 2013
had been put out.
Both directions of the Edward I Koch Bridge are closed between Manhattan and Queens due to a truck fire. Expect heavy delays.
— NYC OEM - Notify NYC (@NotifyNYC) April 8, 2013