The Cincinnati bridge fire is similar to other bridge disasters in Ohio

AND a massive fire that engulfed the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge and Interstate 471 on the Ohio River, Cincinnatians may have recalled another major fire that cut through the main route between Ohio and Kentucky.

In 2020 Brent Spence Bridge which carries Interstates 71 and 75 across the Ohio River, was closed for weeks after an accident sparked a massive fire.

Here’s a look back at this disaster and other fires and bridge collapses around Ohio.

Fiery disaster closes I-71/75 Brent Spence Bridge over Ohio River for six weeks in 2020.

Brent Spence Bridge on I-75 closed after fire and accident

Early Wednesday morning, a boat poured water on a burning truck on the Brent Spence Bridge. The fire occurred after an accident involving two semi-trucks. One truck was carrying potassium hydroxide. The bridge will be closed pending an inspection.

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On November 11, 2020 a truck carrying potassium hydroxide collided with a lift truck on the Brent Spence Bridge, causing a major fire that ended closing a span of the Ohio River for six weeks.

According to 911 calls, the driver of an Old Dominion semi-trailer that collided with a lift truck did not have time to grab Hazmat documents before fleeing the truck, the Enquirer previously reported.

“It started burning and I just jumped out,” he told the dispatcher because he couldn’t get the documents in time.

Neither he nor the lift driver was injured.

Bridge repairs included new steel support beams and new sections of concrete on the upper and lower decks. The United States Department of Transportation issued $12 million in federal funds available for emergency repairs.

A bridge on which over 160,000 vehicles pass daily one of the busiest routes for truck transport in the United States, reopened on December 22, 2020.

On Saturday, a tanker caught fire on national road No. 8 in Macedonia

The accident closed the highway in both directions.

A tanker crash kills a driver and causes a fire on the Route 8 ramp to I-271 in January 2024.

On Jan. 27, a diesel tanker driver died after driving off a bridge on an on-ramp to Interstate 271 from State Route 8 north of Akron.

A truck carrying 7,500 gallons of diesel fuel exploded, causing a massive fire that closed the bridge for several days. The Akron Beacon Journal reports. It reopened after inspections showed that the damage did not affect the bridge’s structural integrity.

The Miamitown Bridge collapses during the Cincinnati floods on May 26, 1989

According to him, a temporary bridge over the Great Miami River collapsed during extensive flooding on May 16, 1989. media reportssending four cars into the water. At least two people drowned WCPO reported.

According to WCPO, in November 1990, the National Transportation Safety Board released a report blaming the Hamilton County Engineer’s Office for three factors that contributed to the bridge collapse. These include:

The design choice of National Engineering, which built the bridge, did not take lateral loads into account
Failure to submit bridge design plans to the Ohio Department of Transportation for review as required by state law
Failure to quickly close the bridge when it was exposed to significant debris loads

The Gallipolis span of the Silver Bridge collapses into the Ohio River on December 15, 1967

The Silver Bridge spanned the Ohio River from Gallipolis to Point Pleasant, West Virginia. Opened to traffic in 1928, it was the first bridge in the country to use an innovative suspension system with eye bars instead of the traditional steel cable suspension. Public Broadcasting in West Virginia.

However, one of these eyes had a small, invisible flaw. The faulty eyelet eventually cracked and began to corrode out of sight of the public or bridge inspectors. At around 5 p.m. on December 15 – during rush hour – the pond failed, which triggered a series of other failures that caused the bridge to collapse. Thirty-one vehicles plunged into the Ohio River, killing 46 people.