Two patients were being transported from the scene of the bridge collapse to Skagit Valley Hospital in nearby Mt.
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There is compelling coverage of the year's major news events: Iran, the war in Iraq, the Minneapolis bridge collapse and the massive southern California wildfires.
Investigators say they plan to fly around the disaster site in a helicopter equipped with a high-resolution camera, and they're using sophisticated computer models to recreate the bridge collapse, which may reveal clues about how it happened.
Jacobs also points out that perhaps there is a link between the area near this highway and tragedies that have happened in history, such as the bridge collapse on I-35 in Minneapolis last August and the assassination of JFK 44 years ago near I-35 in Dallas.
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Investigators have not yet determined what caused the I-35W bridge to collapse in Minneapolis last week.
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As the truck was entering the bridge, its load -- which Rudeen described as an equipment casing form for a drill rig -- hit a support girder, causing the bridge to collapse.
The student, Mr. Li, said he and the other students were initially trapped in the mountains after the quake caused a bridge to collapse, but they were on their way back to Chengdu after their university sent shuttles to pick them up.
Other over-height vehicles struck the Skagit River bridge before the collapse on Thursday, she noted.
Ciaran Jones, 25, had been off duty but got out of his car to direct traffic as rising waters in the River Liffey threatened to collapse a bridge.
There, he saw cars "crumpled upside down like tin cans" after being mangled and smashed by the collapse of the bridge.
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Nor was it expecting a string of disasters, including the highly publicized collapse of a bridge over the Han river in the capital.
That came after the collapse of a bridge that was under construction as part of the city's mass-rapid transport system in September last year, killing one person.
That came after the collapse of a bridge that was under construction as part of the city's mass-rapid transport system in September last year, killing at least one person and injuring several.
Often they follow a tragedy, such as when Sunnis risked their lives diving into the Tigris to save hundreds of Shia pilgrims who fell into the river after the collapse of a bridge in 2005.
The temporary solution developed by the state's Department of Transportation includes using steel girders at the site of the collapse while a permanent bridge is built.
That designation means parts of a bridge require monitoring or repair, but does not indicate the bridge is unsafe or likely to collapse, according to the agency.
Historians are bleakly recalling the jubilee disaster of 1450, when crowds surging to and from St Peter's jammed the Castel St Angelo bridge, causing the parapets to collapse whereupon 200 pilgrims fell into the river and drowned.
The package was a response to the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge on Aug. 1, 2007, which killed 13.
In 2007, the collapse of an Interstate 35 bridge in Minneapolis sent more than 100 vehicles into the Mississippi River, killing 13 and injuring another 145.
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In 2002, 14 people died and 11 more were injured when their cars and trucks plunged into a reservoir after the collapse of an Interstate 40 bridge in Oklahoma.
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At the height of the flood, engineers feared a bridge on the Pawtuxet was going to collapse, taking with it a nearby dam, which in turn could have taken out another dam.
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"Failure" was defined as anything from collapse to damage so serious the bridge had to be closed.
The father of four, who had been an officer with the Cumbrian force for 25 years, was directing motorists off the bridge when the force of floodwater caused the collapse.
The mishap was reminiscent of the August 2007 collapse of an I-35W bridge in Minneapolis that killed 13 people and injured another 145 when it buckled and fell into the Mississippi River during rush-hour.
Their problems range from unemployment to difficulty getting pregnant, possible alcoholism, sex addiction, and post-traumatic-stress disorder stemming from the 2007 collapse of the I-35W bridge into the Mississippi River during an evening rush hour.
The refinery disaster follows a gun battle inside Yare prison on August 19th that left at least 26 inmates dead, and the collapse four days earlier of a bridge linking Caracas with eastern Venezuela.
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State authorities on Friday morning blamed the collapse on a truck that hit the bridge.
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It had been rated "functionally deficient, " according to a federal database, but it was not clear Friday if the bridge's condition played any role in the collapse.
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