Because we are building earthquake resistant items in this region, I suspect an asphalt material might have been used. Asphalt does not hold up against fire.
Just my common sense thought

Flames shot 200 feet in the air and the heat was intense enough to melt part of the freeway and cause the collapse

contradicted by the later statement...

Heat exceeded 2,750 degrees and caused the steel beams holding up the interchange from eastbound I-80 to eastbound Interstate 580 above to buckle and bolts holding the structure together to melt, leading to the collapse, California Department of Transportation director Will Kempton said.

First they say "part of the freeway melted", then they say it "buckled" but "the bolts melted" which is it?

Furthermore, they present a physically impossible number for the temperatures involved in an open-air, random, hydrocarbon fire. 2750 F is the melting point of structural steel, only achieved in a blast furnace where super heated oxygen is pumped in under pressure to create the crucible in which steel is forged. Hydrocarbon fires alone cannot reach the temperatures high enough to "melt" steel. But these disinfo/misinfo liars count on the public not knowing these facts.

An gasoline fire consisting of 8600 gallons, which burns hotter than jet grade kerosene, igniting in a localized fashion directly under a section of roadway made up of a handful on non-welded horrizontal members is vastly different from what happened at the wtc, yet the reporter actually equates the two incidents as if they have anything in common, other than the bare basic generalized facts of "fire" and "steel". Again they rely on the general public's inability (or perceived inability) to distinguish any of the many crucial differences.

What happened here is really quite simple. A tanker crashed and 8600 gallons of gasoline caught fire under an overpass. Over time, the heat caused the horizontal steel members to sag and put abnormal lateral stresses on the bolted (not welded) joints at the vertical column supports, joints which are, by the way, designed to fail locally. Over time the stress and heat on the joints caused them to fail, causing the section of roadway to collapse.

When NIST and UL built scale models of floor trusses, which had no fireproofing, and subjected them to fires with temperatures not possible in either tower on 9/11, they were able to get the truss members to sag... 3 inches on center. What they were not able to achieve was anything even remotely resembling a condition that could lead to a collapse, let alone a collapse itself. The only way a collapse was achieved was in computer models where the values were ramped up to values that are not possible, to create a sag effect of 42 inches. These impossible values and results could still not cause the effects seen on 9/11 (ie global collapse at near freefall speed). I am a software developer and I could use a computer model to do anything I want, including having the collapsed towers reconstruct themselves before your eyes. A programmatic computer model is as only as good as the values being seeded, and only carries the integrity of the people seeding those values. Much like electronic voting machines, you should be very worried about "computer models" coming from these federal institutions.

well, thats all. 

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