That’s the photo I was referring to in my post 61. I don’t know. The fire seems controlled to one stack of spools, with a little running involved and each guy with a fire extinguisher it would have been at least worth a try, and assess things as you are getting closer. Of course you don’t know if it was arson, and the guy placed 10 containers of gas nearby.
I think the first people on the scene had no idea how much damage the heat from the fire would cause. I wouldn’t have thought that the stuff there even if it all caught on fire would have heated the elevated highway enough to cause the collapse. But it did.