The United States Coast Guard says it is suspending the active search Tuesday night for six people who went missing during the collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Search and recovery operations at the Baltimore bridge collapse site were halted overnight due to dangerous conditions, Baltimore City fire chief saidearly Tuesday, destroying the span in a matter of seconds and plunging it into the river in a terrifying collapse that could disrupt a vital shipping port for months. Six people were missing and presumed dead, and the search for them was suspended until the next day.
A container ship rests against wreckage of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday, March 26, 2024, as seen from Pasadena, Md."It looked like something out of an action movie," Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said, calling it "an unthinkable tragedy." On a separate radio channel for maintenance and construction workers, someone said officers were stopping traffic because a ship had lost steering. There was no follow-up order to evacuate, and 30 seconds later the bridge fell and the channel went silent.From 1960 to 2015, there were 35 major bridge collapses worldwide due to ship or barge collision, according to the World Association for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure.
Royal Caribbean International's Vision of the Seas is set to return to Baltimore on April 4, however no official changes have been made. Donald Heinbuch, a retired chief with Baltimore's fire department, said he was startled awake by a deep rumbling that shook his house for several seconds. "It felt like an earthquake," he said.Baltimore Governor Wes Moore discusses latest updates after 6 presumed dead in bridge collapseThe bridge spans the Patapsco River at the entrance to a busy harbor, which leads to the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean.
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