A section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia collapsed on Sunday when a tanker truck carrying a petroleum-based product caught fire beneath an overpass, according to officials.

Despite the traffic snarl, and reports of explosions, there were no reports of injuries as of press time.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said efforts were underway to identify any individual or individuals who may be caught in at least one trapped vehicle, per local media. 

🚨#UPDATE: Watch as drone video shows the Major collapse of the northbound lanes of I-95, as police has closed both directions According to one reporter they are still Hearing loud blasts or bangs underneath where the tanker is pic.twitter.com/ArFad85bq7

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Authorities blocked off a two-mile radius around the area, according to CBS Philadelphia. Officials urged commuters to take alternate routes or consider different forms of transportation.

“For now, please avoid the area and follow the direction of the first responders on the scene,” Shapiro said.

Shapiro said the northbound side of I-95 completely collapsed and could take “some number of months” to rebuild, local media reported.

Brad Rudolph, a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation spokesman, reportedly said a truck was driving on an offramp when a crash or other incident caused the fire.

“That structure quickly collapsed with the heat of the fire as big as it was,” he said. “And then the southbound structure was also shut down because it was compromised by the fire as well.”

Rudolph said authorities are still investigating the cause of the crash that led to the inferno and collapse.

“It seems like it was a vehicle accident,” Rudolph added. “That ramp can be tricky if you’re going at a high rate of speed.”

Several explosions were heard in the area, which Philadelphia Fire Department battalion chief Derek Bowmer attributed to fuel runoff or gas lines that could have been compromised by the accident, per the Associated Press.

I-95 is CLOSED in BOTH directions between Cottman and Academy due to an earlier tanker truck fire under I-95. The fire has caused major structural damage to the highway, so expect it to be closed for a very long time.#PhillyTraffic pic.twitter.com/m1IcTTVDyV

— TTWN Philadelphia (@TotalTrafficPHL) June 11, 2023

Dominick Mireles, the director of the Philadelphia Office of Emergency Management, warned of possible “environmental impacts” in the nearby Delaware River, according to The New York Times.

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said he has been keeping tabs on the situation.

“Closely monitoring the fire and collapse on I-95 in Pennsylvania. I‘ve been in touch with [Federal Highway Administration] and spoke with Gov. Shapiro to offer any assistance that USDOT can provide to help with recovery and reconstruction,” Buttigieg said in a tweet.

Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr gave a thorough assessment on Sunday of the federal indictment against former President Donald Trump, saying that if even half of things Trump is accused of doing are true that the former president is “toast.”

Barr made the remarks during a Fox News interview with Shannon Bream when asked for his analysis of the latest indictment against his former boss. The former attorney general addressed claims from Trump’s allies that the case has to do with the Presidential Records Act and not the Espionage Act—the federal statute that Trump was charged 31 times with allegedly violating.

Barr noted that before the issue blew up into a criminal investigation, it initially was a matter concerning the President Records Act and that the Espionage Act only came into play when he would not return the documents.

“Well, it started out under the Presidential Records Act and the Archives trying to retrieve documents that Trump had no right to have,” Barr said. “But it quickly became clear that what the government was really worried about were these classified and very sensitive documents. I was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were, frankly. And so the government’s agenda was to get those, protect those documents and get them out. And I think it was perfectly appropriate to do that, it was the right thing to do. And I think the counts under the Espionage Act, that he willfully retained those documents are solid counts.”

Barr cautioned that a court of law will ultimately determine the truth, but warned that “if even half of it is true, then he’s toast.”

“It’s a very detailed indictment and it’s very, very damning,” Barr said. “And this idea of presenting Trump as a victim here, or a victim of a witch hunt, is ridiculous. Yes, he’s been a victim in the past. Yes, his adversaries have obsessively pursued him with phony claims. And I’ve been at his side defending against them when he is a victim. But this is much different. He’s not a victim here.”

Barr said the the federal indictment is very different from other cases in which the justice system was weaponized against the former president.

“There was no problem or issue underlying the Russiagate claim. It was an effort to knock him out with a false claim,” Barr said. “Here, I think the government acted responsibly. They gave him every opportunity to return those documents. They acted with restraint. They were very deferential to him. And they were very patient. They talked to him for almost a year to try to get those documents and he jerked them around. They finally went to a subpoena, and what did he do? According to the government, he lied and obstructed that subpoena. And then they did a search, and they found a lot more documents.”

Barr also noted that had Trump simply returned the documents when the National Archives requested them that he likely would not have been indicted.

Pages 28-33 of the indictment show that Trump was charged with willfully retaining national defense documents that were obtained by the U.S. government on the day that he was served the subpoena, June 3, 2022, and the day that Mar-a-Lago was raided, August 8, 2022. He was not charged for any of the classified documents that he returned prior to receiving the subpoena. The remaining criminal charges that he faces, which pertain to his alleged attempts to obstruct the investigation, are all connected to actions that he took after he received the subpoena.

Barr bluntly stated that the documents that Trump had in his possession were “in no universe, Donald J. Trump’s personal documents.”

“They’re official records, they’re not his personal records, battle plans for an attack on another country, or Defense Department documents about our capabilities are in no universe, Donald J. Trump’s personal documents,” he said. “They are the government’s documents.”

Barr noted that his assessment of the situation was not personal and that he repeatedly defended Trump against the Russiagate hoax and that he also slammed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “politicized hit job” against Trump.

“I have spoken out for 30 years about the abuse of the criminal justice process to influence politics,” Barr said. “But this is simply not true [in this case]. This particular episode of trying to retrieve those documents, the government acted responsibly. And it was Donald J. Trump, who acted irresponsibly.”

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WATCH: Former U.S. Attorney General William Barr joins us to give his analysis of the federal indictment against former President Trump. Tune In! #FoxNewsSunday pic.twitter.com/SnsbYht5G0

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