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Sunday morning, at 3:42 AM, a tanker truck carrying 9,600 gallons of unleaded gasoline overturned and caught fire on a bridge in Oakland.  But this wasn't any Oakland bridge. It was part of what is known locally as the MacArther Maze, a point where the 80, 580, 880 and the 24 freeway intersect.  The burning tanker truck melted the steel in the bridge causing it to collapse onto the freeway below it. No one was killed and only the driver was injured.  He left his vehicle, walked to a gas station and took a cab to the hospital where he is being treated for burns. As for the MacArther maze, they are estimating 2 months until the roads are rebuilt.  In the meantime, a section of freeway used by roughly 280,000 people every day has been shut down.  The economic costs are estimated in the multi-millions of dollars.  The Governor has issued a state of emergency to speed up the rebuilding process and was at the bridge last night. There are two reasons...
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