New video taken from a surveillance camera near the Cottman Avenue on-ramp in Northeast Philly captures the moment a tanker truck exploded under I-95 on Sunday.
NBC News has determined that the camera is located at the warehouse of Baldor Specialty Foods, a business on nearby Milnor Street in the Tacony section of Philadelphia. NBC10 has reached out to the company for further details but has yet to hear back.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.
In the video, the vehicle can be seen headed off the highway and turning onto its side while navigating a curve, moments before a roaring fire erupts from the scene. Flames from the overturned tanker truck immediately begin to billow thick, black smoke that shrouds the roadway and fills the air., died in this incident. Officials were able to close that impacted section of I-95 before the roadway collapsed, preventing other injuries.
The ordeal began around 6:20 a.m. Sunday when a commercial truck carrying about 8,500 gallons of gasoline
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