Damaged Highway Reopens Days After Fire
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From Times Wire Reports
Northbound lanes on a stretch of one of the nation’s busiest highways reopened, well ahead of schedule and three days after a fire partially melted an overpass.
Construction workers cheered as cars, escorted by police, traveled on Interstate 95 for the first time since last week’s crash of a tanker truck filled with heating oil.
The more heavily damaged southbound lanes were expected to reopen Thursday.
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