Updated on February 11, 2021 at 7:55 pm
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Charred pieces of a historic covered bridge that burned and fell into a river in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom this weekend were removed Thursday.
On Saturday, the only covered bridge in Troy, which is near the Canadian border, collapsed into the Missisquoi River.
“This bridge meant a lot of things to a lot of different people,” Chief Bobby Jacobs of the Troy Fire Department told NECN and NBC10 Boston as the charred debris was removed Thursday.
Jacobs, who is also the town’s road foreman, called the loss a freak accident, explaining that flames from a malfunctioning snowmobile caught the 111-year old span and set it on fire.