“The first sound was much more intense, and kind of a rumbling, which I guess was the structure, the deck hitting the ground,” said Ken Doyno, a resident who lives four houses away. “I mean, the whole house rattled at that point.”
The collapse came hours before President Joe Biden was to visit the city to press for his $1 trillion infrastructure law, which has earmarked about $1.6 billion for Pennsylvania bridge maintenance.
There were minor injuries from the collapse but no fatalities, said authorities, who also flew drones to make sure no one was under any collapsed sections.
Police reported the structure, on Forbes Avenue over Fern Hollow Creek in Frick Park, came down just before 7 a.m. Witnesses said the loud noise from the collapse was followed by a hissing sound and the smell of natural gas.
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