It could take weeks for the Port of Baltimore to reopen as an arduous cleanup process to clear the massive wreckage from this week’s catastrophic bridge collapse begins, leaving commuters and workers in limbo and supply chains in disarray, officials said.
The Chesapeake 1000 – the largest crane on the East Coast – arrived Friday to help clear debris from where a 213-million-pound cargo vessel slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, destroying the vital thoroughfare and killing six construction workers. Four of their bodies have not been found. Crews will try to work quickly so the search for the missing victims can resume and a cargo channel critical to the local and national economies can reopen, authorities said.
, an organization that provides services to working-class and immigrant families, stressed the dangers construction workers face after six men died when the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed. The victims, originally from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, were filling potholes on the bridge when it was hit by a container ship on Tuesday.
Executive Director Gustavo Torres said essential workers, like the men on the bridge, perform dangerous yet critical work at significant personal risk. “These workers who make it possible to get to work … who work at night and it in the cold and throughout the pandemic — so our lives are made easier,” Torres said. The bodies of Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, of Mexico, and Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, of Guatemala, have been recovered, officials said earlier this week.
. As crews work at the site of the collapse, families of the men who were on the bridge have been grappling with losing their loved ones and struggling to find closure as they wait to be reunited with them. Carlos Hernández, a 24-year-old from Mexico, sent his girlfriend a voice memo from the bridge minutes before the collapse.
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