Update 8:58pm: This photo just in from the Daily Gazette shows firefighters battling an intense blaze
This is so horrible and should have been fixed a long, long time ago! This all could have been prevented. What a tragedy. I pray the driver recovers. Tractor-trailer slams into Maple Avenue bridge in Glenville, explodes https://t.co/AwhK4PF5OL via @dgazette
— Liz Joy (@LizLemeryJoy) December 22, 2023
Update 8:37pm: The explosion was so large, it was picked up by weather radar:
That's not precipitation that's smoke from the explosion in Glenville being picked up on radar #nywx pic.twitter.com/h9wDuZ5txu
— Matthew Jourdanais (@firefighter0235) December 22, 2023
Update 8:32pm: CBS 6 is reporting the driver is alive but suffered serious burns and has been taken to Westchester Medical Center.
Witnesses described seeing a giant fireball, flames a couple hundred feet high and hearing loud boom. This was minutes after the explosion. @CBS6Albany pic.twitter.com/b3kynAS9ID
— Briana Supardi (@CBS6Briana) December 22, 2023
Update 8:27pm: Neighbors tell News 10 they heard a loud boom and saw a giant fireball in the air. This video just in:
A major explosion shook the town of Glenville in Schenectady County Thursday evening. Glenville Supervisor Chris Koetzle tells NewsChannel 13 a truck carrying propane struck the Maple Avenue Bridge. It happened around 6:35pm and knocked out power to over 1,200 National Grid customers in Glenville and Clifton Park.
