@jhertzli Thank you!
I think a broad statement is possible on people's intuition of how loaded structural steel works under heat being bad because they think of "melting" as what ice does, and what a conductor does (especially a heterogeneous conductor 1,200 feet long under a side-load, or 1,700 feet high under a vertical load) is an entirely different sort of behavior.
@mtomczak
In case anyone needed a link...
https://www.wtae.com/article/penndot-liberty-bridge-was-minutes-from-collapsing-bridge-to-remain-closed-all-week-1/7481960