288 southbound before the armed overpass an 18-wheeler fuel tank came loose for the vehicle hit the road bounced down the road across the bridge about a hundred yards past the bridge spilling diesel fuel all the way ok good for Friday morning in south-central Houston a hazardous material spill creates a traffic jam stretching back from miles toward the heart of the city this truck behind me was in lane number three and this truck up here was in lane number two they made contact causing them to explode and burn on the truck and that's what causes damage text on workers from a central maintenance section are about to begin their scheduled road repairs for the day when they get the call from the Euston police departments set up traffic control footage rake this our second fatality can be 6m hours and one is into you responding quickly to their new task the crew heads to the accident location at the scene HPD officers redirect traffic to a frontage road their motorcycles forming the only barrier protecting the emergency teams just over the bridge so we right now we brought our to our board trucks some pickup trucks and we kind of like making a makeshift traffic control with the trucks the two arrow boards so that the traffic and flow continuously without installed working together with HPD texts on maintenance creates an effective roadblock to detour oncoming traffic so we have text our crews down here staged helping HPD HFD hazmat was on scene they released it to text out and we have a contractor doing the cleanup of the tainted exploded in the fuel that's built on the bridge we have to suck it up because some of this stuff doesn't get cleared up right away it could be two hours it could be ten hours you know depends on the circumstance repairs on the load of the truck is holding we have to call in the hazmat team who specializes in that stuff they know what product to use to clean it so it's kind of tedious because you don't want anything to our drainage systems but we've got it blocked environmental contractors here his sweeper just arrived and then once here absorb balls picked up off the roads and we should be clear to open it for traffic but just opening the roadway to thousands of agitated drivers demands precise synchronization between TxDOT and HPD the crews quickly removed barrels and clear maintenance trucks before the wall of traffic moves forward TxDOT maintenance crews ready and prepared for everything while heavy congestion and instant gridlock like this are found in Texas's larger cities statewide the crews face a common enemy hey well it's hot we're hitting 110 easy for a good two three months it is very hot especially this time of the year you know you had a 100 degree temperature and you're standing on especially when you're laying hot Nick yeah
