How Fire Causes Bridges to Collapse

Highway bridge collapses, due frequently to fuel tanker truck fires beneath them, make the news, cause massive disruptions to transportation, and are expensive to repair, especially in a hurry. But do they happen sufficiently frequently to spend what it would take to engineer these bridges to better withstand fire?

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