Police found the burned remains of one person after extinguishing a massive fire that spread through multiple semi-trucks on I-10 Westbound on the Basin Bridge.
According to our partners at WBRZ, the body was found inside one of the half-dozen cars that crashed and caught fire. Several other people involved in the crash were taken to hospitals by ambulance and helicopters.
One of those vehicles was an 18-wheeler hauling highly-flammable marine pollutant. A HAZMAT crew was called onto the scene and spent nearly four hours extinguishing the blaze.
The crash closed a large stretch of I-10 from LA415 in Baton Rouge to I-49 in Lafayette.
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