Implosion drops portion of bridge into river below.
Two fifths of the Old Sligo Bridge in Tennessee is now gone.
A portion of the bridge on the Smithville side was demolished late Tuesday afternoon. The rest of the bridge remains standing but will soon come down as well.
“They are shooting it up in pieces and when it falls in the water then they have to retrieve it out. They will put the pieces on barges and ship it out for waste or scrap metal,” said Larry Langford, Operations Technician for the Tennessee Department of Transportation.
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