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The Arkansas Department of Transportation (ARDOT) has fired a bridge inspector whom the agency said did not report a steel beam's crack that worsened, leading to the Mississippi River closing for three days earlier this month.The Hernando de Soto Bridge was closed to both river and highway traffic May 11 after a contractor for the Arkansas Department of Transportation found what transportation officials called a fracture in a major structural support beam crucial to the bridge's integrity. The contractor called 911, asking that all traffic immediately be diverted.River traffic reopened between Mile 736 and Mile 737 on May 14, but traffic over the bridge, which carries Interstate 40 between Memphis, Tenn., and West Memphis, Ark., has been diverted to the only other Memphis area crossing, on I-55. |