Pennsylvania pileup

The snow squall led to clouded visibility on Interstate 81 before the pileup, officials said.

Their conditions were not immediately known. More than 50 "travelers were taken via Transit Authority buses to a reception center at a local fire station where the American Red Cross, County Emergency Management, and Pennsylvania State Police are working on family reunification," a spokesperson for the Schuylkill County Office of Emergency Management said in the statement. At least three people died and many more were injured after a mass pileup took place during a snow squall in Pennsylvania on Monday, according to local officials.

A stretch of an interstate highway in Pennsylvania remains shuttered a day after at least three people were killed and more than a dozen others injured when ...

He said three of the tractor-trailers involved no longer had their tractor portions and one didn't have tires because they were consumed in the fire. A Pennsylvania State Police incident report noted 24 people were taken to four hospitals. Some vehicles were mostly burned and others melted onto the highway, and authorities said they needed to go through each vehicle to make sure there are no human remains.

FOSTER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A married couple that was heading back to Watertown from Florida were in the middle of a nearly 60-car pileup Monday on Interstate ...

They have been housed in a hotel and were still in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, trying to figure out where their car was towed so they can get their belongings. The 24 people who were injured were taken to four different hospitals, and the rest were taken on buses to a Wegman’s Distribution Center and later to a reunification center. Mr. Gerken said he and his wife were traveling back to Watertown after having been in Florida for a month. Mr. Gerken said the crash was nobody’s fault. Mrs. Gerken was driving and quickly slowed down before turning on the hazard lights. At least three people reportedly died and 24 were injured after a fiery pileup on I-81 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Monday morning.

Parts of Interstate 81 remained closed Tuesday after a deadly pileup caused by a snow squall killed at least three people and injured more than 20.

The fires were out by 6 p.m. Monday, Beohm said. More than 50 vehicles were involved in the fiery crash that killed at least three people and injured dozens more. Pennsylvania State Police said 24 injured people were transported to four different hospitals. Black smoke and flames can be seen rising from a large truck. The National Weather Service had warned of “numerous brief heavy snow squalls with very poor visibility.” Pennsylvania State Police Troop L Public Information Officer David Beohm tweeted Tuesday evening that construction needed to be completed before reopening.

Three people were killed and dozens injured on Monday morning in a massive pileup on a snowy Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County.

Candi and David Gerken were on their way home from Florida when they got caught in a snow squall on Interstate 81 in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. State ...

These cars were so entangled that they could not just get to people for a long time,” said Candi. “When I started seeing the people getting taken out of the cars is when it really got to me - that had to be taken out with jaws of life, and some of them couldn’t get out. There is nowhere to go so Dave’s going aim for the ditch.”

The death toll has risen following a pileup Monday on Interstate 81 in eastern Pennsylvania. A total of five people have now been pronounced dead, ...

David J. Moylan, the Schuylkill County coroner, pronounced three people dead around 3 p.m. Monday, later adding two more to the list. About 75 drivers who were not taken to hospitals were taken to a Wegman’s Distribution Facility that was a convenient nearby location for emergency crews. State police said a large fire involving several of the vehicles burned for hours. Crews worked for hours to put out fires with water pumped from an overpass. The crash was reported around 10:30 a.m. ET, according to John Blickley, Schuylkill County deputy emergency management coordinator. Snow squalls are intense bursts of snow accompanied by powerful winds.

According to reports, it was a snow squall that dusted up a portion of Interstate 81 in northeastern Pennsylvania that led to the fiery, fatal crash.

Other news agencies are reporting that the death toll has climbed. The news source cited officials as saying that they've only cleared about 40% of the crash scene so far and that the total number of vehicles involved could be as high as 60. Initial reports by WNEP listed the injured as at least 20 and the number of dead as 3.

The death toll has climbed following Monday's pileup on Interstate 81 in central Pennsylvania.

The roadway could be open by Wednesday morning. The roadway could be open by Wednesday morning. Some vehicles were mostly burned and others melted onto the highway, and authorities said they needed to go through each vehicle to make sure there are no human remains. Numerous vehicles remained on the roadway in the northbound lanes early Tuesday, authorities said. Some vehicles were mostly burned and others melted onto the highway, and authorities said they needed to go through each vehicle to make sure there are no human remains. Numerous vehicles remained on the roadway in the northbound lanes early Tuesday, authorities said.