Following the collapse, emergency services were trying to free people from a vehicle trapped underneath the bridge's scaffolding.
JOE MAIDA can defibrillate a stalled heart as easily as he can pull people from a vehicle trapped underwater.
Two people were rescued from a vehicle trapped in floodwater in Marine Parade, Dawlish, at about 21 20 GMT on Tuesday.
Closed circuit TV footage showed rescue workers attempting to remove large chunks of concrete in a frantic effort to reach vehicles trapped beneath.
The ensuing traffic jam — 100 miles long by some estimates and involving 10,000 vehicles — trapped some motorists for three days and forced senior Russian officials to go on television on Monday to mollify the thousands of angry drivers.
Sepúlveda used the scoop of a front loader, one of nineteen vehicles trapped with them, to clear rocks from a passageway, but more rocks fell from the top of the pile to take their place.
The pickup truck in which a man is found murdered is caught in a pileup of eight vehicles trapped on a detour road when a blizzard blankets the coast, "a murder scene with no footprints in and no footprints out".
Calculations of the death toll ranged widely, but official accounts said that at least 64 people were either known or feared dead and that the total could rise as rescuers dug their way to vehicles trapped under hundreds of tons of snow and ice.
On Tuesday, the emergency services diverted more than a 100 vehicles trapped on the A1 to the A19.
It continued toward Union Square and proceeded to hit six vehicles, trapping some motorists inside. .
'Snowbird Bandit' robs third bank in southern Orange County. 2 vehicles trapped in mud as heavy rains end in north L.A. County. .
