fire

There was a huge inferno in the early hours of Friday morning in a cash toll lane in the busiest toll plaza on the Harris County Houston tollway network.

The Oklahoma Turnpike is making a rapid recovery from a fire that devastated their PIKEPASS electronic toll center in Oklahoma City Monday night. By lunchtime today less than 30 hours after the fire they have a new back office/customer service center operating from temporary premises a few doors away from the burnt building.

The Oklahoma Turnpike's main customer service and accounts office for PIKEPASS brand transponder toll collection was badly damaged by a fire that raged late Monday night. It took firefighters 45 minutes to put out the blaze which reportedly started at the back of the offices.

Oklahoma Turnpike Authority would be required by law to exempt "emergency vehicles" from tolls under a bill proceeding through the Oklahoma House of Representatives. The bill HR2533 also bars tolls on police even when not on duty.

Throgs Neck Bridge between Bronx and Queens NY City was closed much of today by a fire that raged in construction materials and temporary works that are part of a deck replacement project. The fire broke out about 5am, an hour after a night construction shift ended.

A gasoline tanker truck rolled over and caught fire on the New Jersey Turnpike north off ramp of IC16W at NJ3 in East Rutherford in the Meadowlands, Thursday Nov 20, 3pm. The tanker had the standard 8500 gallons (32k liters) of gasoline aboard and the plume of smoke sent up by the fire could easily be seen from all over Manhattan 10km (6 miles) and more away.

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