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Photos: Freeway Bridge Collapses After Heavy Flooding
A major freeway is closed after heavy flooding washed out a bridge near the state border.
About 30 feet of the eastbound side of the 10 freeway collapsed after heavy flooding from a summer storm washed out a bridge in Riverside County on Sunday afternoon. Firefighters responded to the scene, about 50 miles west of the Arizona border, before 4:45 p.m. and conducted a rescue operation of a pickup truck driver whose vehicle got stuck.
City News Service reports says the driver was rescued just before 7 p.m. and taken to a hospital in Palm Springs.
Both directions of the freeway around the bridge collapse have been closed, with drivers being turned around.
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Bridge collapse closes I-10 closed in both directions at Desert Center, driver rescued. #bridgecollapse pic.twitter.com/30jxIGns9x
— Megan Terlecky (@MTerlecky) July 20, 2015
PHOTOS: Truck driver rescued after bridge collapse over 10 Fwy http://t.co/i4TZYnsBou (via @JhawkFire) pic.twitter.com/za0csAz1Om
— ABC7 Eyewitness News (@ABC7) July 20, 2015
MORE: Pics of bridge collapse on EB I-10 in Desert Center via @Jhawkfire http://t.co/x9ZJcWSzLd pic.twitter.com/ZEtJVGwjWE
— 12 News (@12News) July 20, 2015
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