{"id":27373,"date":"2022-01-28T09:28:39","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T14:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=27373"},"modified":"2022-01-29T21:22:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T02:22:23","slug":"bridge-collapse-at-forbes-and-braddock-avenues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2022\/01\/28\/bridge-collapse-at-forbes-and-braddock-avenues\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridge collapse at Forbes and Braddock Avenues"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ten people were injured Friday morning when a bridge that carries Forbes Avenue over Frick Park in Pittsburgh collapsed, officials said, with six vehicles including a Port Authority bus left stranded in the twisted mess of a bridge that had been listed in poor condition for the past decade.<\/p>\n

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Crews respond near the site where a bridge collapsed on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, at the intersection of Braddock Avenue and Forbes Avenue in Frick Park. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crews respond near the site where a bridge collapsed on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, at the intersection of Braddock Avenue and Forbes Avenue in Frick Park. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crews respond near the site where a bridge collapsed on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, at the intersection of Braddock Avenue and Forbes Avenue in Frick Park. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crews respond near the site where a bridge collapsed on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, at the intersection of Braddock Avenue and Forbes Avenue in Frick Park. (Emily Matthews\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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A pickup truck is seen in the crumpled wreckage of a bridge collapse along Forbes Ave. in Frick Park on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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John Jacobs, of Squirrel Hill, walks his dogs in Frick Park to get a closer look at the bridge collapse running along Forbes Ae. on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. Jacobs says he walks his dogs there every morning. \u201cIt\u2019s funny Biden\u2018s in town on the infrastructure bill, what a coincidence,\u201d he says. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A car is wedged in the crumpled wreckage of a bridge collapse along Forbes Ave. in Frick Park on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aerial photo of a bridge collapse at Forbes and Braddock, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Frick Park.. (Matt Freed\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Workers respond to a bridge collapse above Fern Hollow Creek along Forbes Ave. on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022 Frick Park. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Officials including Pittsburgh Mayor Ed Gainey, center, gather on the Squirrel Hill side of Forbes Ave. as they respond to bridge collapse above Frick Park on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A crane sits on Forbes Avenue to help retrieve cars and a Port Authority bus involved in a bridge collapse in Frick Park, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Pittsburgh. (Matt Freed\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The motorcade for President Joe Biden moves along Forbes Ave. after his visit to the side of a collapsed bridge in neighboring Frick Park, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Squirrel Hill. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bill Godshall of Greenfield takes a look at a bridge collapse above Fern Hollow Creek along Forbes Ave. on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Frick Park. \u201cI hike these bills all the time, I drive that bridge everyday,\u201d said Godshall, mirroring the statements of many others who came to get a closer look at the site. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Port Authority bus rests against the concrete and steel of a bridge collapse along Forbes Ave. in Frick Park on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Workers respond to a bridge collapse above Fern Hollow Creek along Forbes Ave. on Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Frick Park. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Port Authority bus can be seen on a portion of a collapsed bridge located along Forbes Avenue in Frick Park on Friday, Jan.. 28, 2022. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aerial photo of a bridge collapse at Forbes and Braddock, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Frick Park. (Matt Freed\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aerial photo of a bridge collapse at Forbes and Braddock, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Frick Park. (Matt Freed\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Aerial photo of a bridge collapse at Forbes and Braddock, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Frick Park. (Matt Freed\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A Port Authority bus can be seen on a portion of a collapsed bridge located along Forbes Avenue in Frick Park on Friday, Jan.. 28, 2022. (Stephanie Strasburg\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Crews on the scene of a bridge collapse at Forbes and Braddock, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Frick Park. (Matt Freed\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Pittsburgh fire chief Darryl Jones speaks next to mayor Ed Gainey on the scene of a bridge collapse at Forbes and Braddock, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Frick Park. (Matt Freed\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Dignitaries and emergency crews on the scene of a bridge collapse at Forbes and Braddock, Friday, Jan. 28, 2022, in Frick Park. (Matt Freed\/Post-Gazette)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten people were injured Friday morning when a bridge that carries Forbes Avenue over Frick Park in Pittsburgh collapsed, officials said, with six vehicles including a Port Authority bus left stranded in the twisted mess of a bridge that had been listed in poor condition for the past decade. See story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":27437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,4,15,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[41],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/01\/SS_20220128smsBridge10-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1706&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27373"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27491,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27373\/revisions\/27491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27373"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=27373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}