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Tire Fire

Vincent Thompson of member station WHYY reports on the major dispruption on Interstate-95, five miles north of Philadelphia. Arsonists set a huge pile of illegally dumped tires on fire, and that, in turn, damaged a section of the highway that carries about 150-thousand cars each day.

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