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Tuesday 29 March 2022
Some 40 vehicles collide on snowy Pennsylvania highway

POTTSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A and orange flames into
collision involving more the air and an SUV struck a
than 40 vehicles closed passenger car sending the
a portion of Interstate 81 sedan spinning, narrowly
in Pennsylvania and sent missing its driver who stood
more than a dozen peo- on the shoulder of the high-
ple to area hospitals on way shrouded in snow and
Monday, according to the fog.
Schuylkill County Office of The person who posted the
Emergency Management. video did not immediately
The crash in northeast Penn- respond to requests seek-
sylvania happened around ing additional information.
10:30 a.m. and John Blick- People off camera can be
ley, the deputy emergency heard yelling as the cas-
management coordinator cade of crashes unfolds
for the agency, said offi- with multiple vehicles col-
cials believe a snow squall liding in less than a minute.
clouded visibility and likely The National Weather Ser-
contributed to the acci- vice had warned of "nu-
dent. About 40 vehicles merous brief heavy snow
including multiple tractor squalls with very poor vis-
trailers were involved in the ibility."
initial crash, he said. Interstate 81 North near the Minersville exit, Foster Twp., Pa., was the scene of a multi-vehicle crash "The squalls will quickly re-
No fatalities had been re- on Monday, March 28, 2022. duce the visibility to under
ported to the Schuylkill Associated Press one-half of a mile and coat
County agency, but Blick- the roads with snow," fore-
ley said emergency per- been largely brought un- and a number of smaller were in the crash and the casters said, urging drivers
sonnel from four different der control, he said. vehicles. "walking wounded" were to get off the road if pos-
counties responded and Pennsylvania State Police "We can't do anything while taken to the Wegman's sible or turn on hazard lights
took about 20 patients to Trooper David Beohm said there's still an active fire go- distribution center in an in- "and gradually slow down
area hospitals for treat- Monday afternoon that he ing, and fire (officials) say dustrial park near the crash, to avoid a chain reaction
ment. The county coro- could not confirm any fa- it will probably be another he said, and a reunification vehicular accident."
ner's office did not return talities but he said police one to two hours until they center had been set up at Mike Colbert, a forecaster
requests for information haven't been able to inves- get it extinguished," Beohm the Goodwill Fire Company with the National Weather
about any fatalities. tigate because a fire was said. in Minersville. Service office in State Col-
Blickley said three tractor still burning among a num- Many fire units were at the Footage uploaded to so- lege, said the weather ser-
trailers carrying unknown ber of crashed cars and scene, including a num- cial media on Monday vice started issuing warn-
cargo were on fire when trucks. ber or tankers coming to showed a tractor-trailer ings for snow squalls a few
emergency personnel He estimated a total of replenish water because smash into a large dump years ago, and pileups of
responded. Smaller fires 50 to 60 vehicles were in- there was no water source truck, turning it nearly 180 the kind being reported
broke out out in other ve- volved in the crash, includ- from hydrants on scene. degrees. Another large were the reason they be-
hicles as well but all had ing some tractor trailers People whose vehicles truck spewed black smoke gan doing so.q

Montpelier ends power-share with enslaved descendants group

dants Committee chose sions between the board isn't backing away from its
three descendants of en- and the committee, while commitment to fully repre-
slaved people serving on Montpelier's reputation as sent descendants on the
the board and the founda- a pioneer in empowering board, an idea known as
tion picked another two, traditionally marginalized structural parity, but work-
but Friday's vote means the groups has grown. ing with the committee
committee can't name fu- At issue is how the estate has been difficult and the
ture members, giving the frames the history surround- board wants to be able to
foundation greater control ing Madison, the nation's choose descendant mem-
over the board's makeup, fourth president who is bers from a wider pool.
The Washington Post re- known as the father of the "This is an effort to reset the
ported. Constitution. process," Hickok said. "It
"It is a complete reversal of The board "wants to con- certainly doesn't have the
their public commitment tinue telling the public a board backing away from
that was made on June 16, whitewashed narrative parity. We are very com-
2021," said James French, about the Constitution mitted to parity. The chal-
Visitors walk around the restored home of former President
James Madison's home Montpelier in Orange, Va., Aug. 13, head of the committee and and its chief architect and lenge has been organiza-
2008. a member of the Montpe- deciding what should be tionally getting there."
Associated Press lier Foundation's board. "It's said about the 300 people The change upset many
a rejection of the principle Madison owned," Bettye estate staffers, who say
ORANGE, Va. (AP) — Less ple once enslaved there, of equality of descendant Kearse, a board member the committee of descen-
than a year after the board the board has voted to strip voices and it's very unfortu- who was put forward by dants has been a partner
that manages James Mad- power-sharing status from a nate, because it is a missed the descendants commit- in interpreting the history
ison's Montpelier estate in group representing African opportunity for Montpelier tee, told the Washington of Madison, his family and
Virginia announced plans Americans who trace their to make history." Post in an email. the roughly 300 enslaved
to share authority equally roots to the historic estate. The last two years have Foundation chairman people who lived and died
with descendants of peo- The Montpelier Descen- seen heightened ten- Gene Hickok said the board there over 140 years.q