The Big Mac Bridge fire has sparked a new conversation about homeless encampments in Cincinnati, two days after the WCPO 9 I-Team reported on Ohio Department of Transportation documents detailing fire damage from “people living under our bridges.” The Cincinnati Fire Department has yet to reveal what caused the Nov. 1 blaze, which closed Cincinnati’s […]
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What caused the Big Mac Bridge fire? ODOT records shed new light
We still don’t know what caused a playground fire hot enough to melt metal on the Big Mac bridge last month, but we have learned that Hamilton County had more than a dozen bridge fires in recent years and bridge netting might have made this one worse. A state bridge inspector flagged a problem with […]

