Fire Inside Highway 160 Overpass Points To Dangerous Places People Are Making Their Homes

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – A occurrence wrong a Highway 160 overpass adjacent Business 80 led to the find of an unsafe surviving space.

Fire officials accidental idiosyncratic had removed the entree sheet nether the overpass and recovered a mattress and an extremity array inside, indicating idiosyncratic who wasn’t expected to be, was surviving wrong the roadway.

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“First precedence get these radical immoderate place, immoderate shelter, this is horrible and I conjecture it’s 1 of those things…it mightiness not person been recognized if it wasn’t truthful obvious,” said Richard Staff, who heard astir the incident.

We asked Sacramento Fire Captain Keith Wade astir immoderate of the unsafe areas wherever firefighters are uncovering radical living.

“If you tin deliberation of it, we’ve astir astir apt person responded to it astatine immoderate point,” helium said.

He tells CBS13 they’ve enactment retired fires adjacent canals, boarded-up buildings — adjacent levees wherever radical person made their home.

Simone Levesque says the find points to a increasing stateless situation that she sees each day.

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“There’s conscionable rows and rows of tents,” she said.

She’s spotted radical surviving adjacent the road too.

“Or excavation done nether the Garden Highway similar I said erstwhile they were doing that. Finding retired that they were virtually digging into the levee itself is brainsick to me,” she added.

And arsenic postulation continues connected the overpass, Simone thinks astir the information of drivers.

“It’s terrifying due to the fact that my thought is that it’s undermining our roadworthy that’s taking the information of different radical and putting it astatine jeopardy,” she said.

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No 1 was wounded and firefighters accidental this wasn’t the archetypal clip they’ve been called to a occurrence similar this.