Car bursts into flame near Richmond-San Rafael Bridge toll plaza
There was a scary scene at the eastern entrance to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Wednesday afternoon when a car burst into flames.
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Dave Pehling is website managing editor for CBS Bay Area. He started his journalism working as a freelance writer covering music in San Francisco in the late 1990s. He wrote for both the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the SF Weekly for a number of years, eventually shifting his career full-time into writing and copy editing for a variety of San Francisco-based entertainment and city guide websites.
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There was a scary scene at the eastern entrance to the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge Wednesday afternoon when a car burst into flames.
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