Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:34:24 -0400
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The Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) held a press convention Wednesday night to offer an replace on the collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.
NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy stated the Singaporean-flagged cargo ship, the Dali, had been carrying 56 containers of hazardous supplies on board, together with corrosive flammable cells, lithium ion batteries, and different hazardous supplies.
A number of the hazmat containers had been breached, and a sheen was recognized within the water that will likely be handled by the authorities.
Homendy stated the voyage knowledge recorder (VDR) has been recovered. NTSB investigator Marcel Muise stated the VDR comprises info from midnight to roughly 6 a.m.
Homendy stated the investigation could be a “large enterprise” that’s anticipated two take one to 2 years. She added that the NTSB won’t hesitate to situation pressing security suggestions throughout that timeframe. A preliminary report is anticipated in solely two to 4 weeks.
A part of the investigation will likely be figuring out what brought on the ship to lose energy earlier than hitting the bridge. The supply of that outage remained unknown as of Wednesday, Homendy stated.
Homendy stated tugboats had been known as to assist the vessel depart the port and get to the principle channel. The vessel doesn’t have any tugboats right now. Homendy confirmed that vessel didn’t have any tugboats serving to it navigate by means of the waters earlier than it hit the bridge. The VDR confirmed that the pilot known as for tugboats simply earlier than 1:30 a.m. after the vessel hit the bridge.
The NTSB has confirmed that there have been 21 crewmembers on board the vessel on the time of the accident plus two pilots.
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 02:20:12 -0400
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The Maryland Transportation Authority Police launched harrowing dispatch audio from moments earlier than the container ship Dali rammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge within the Baltimore Harbor.
At roughly 1:25 a.m. on Tuesday, the Dali veered off track, misplaced energy and struck one of many iconic bridge’s assist pillars.
“I would like one in every of you guys on the south aspect, one in every of you guys on the north aspect, maintain all site visitors on the Key Bridge,” an officer may be heard saying within the launched audio.
The officer added: “There is a ship approaching that simply misplaced their steering so till we get that underneath management, we have to cease all site visitors.”
Simply 4 minutes later, one other officer may be heard saying within the police dispatch audio that the bridge had fallen.
“The entire bridge simply fell down! Begin whoever, all people — the entire bridge simply collapsed!” the officer stated.
Fox Information Digital’s Chris Pandolfo and Greg Norman contributed to this replace.
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 01:37:32 -0400
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The Baltimore bridge collapse that left six folks useless on Tuesday is the newest lethal collapse throughout america prompted by a sea vessel or ship strike.
On Might 26, 2002, the Interstate 40 bridge spanning the Arkansas River at Webbers Falls, Oklahoma, collapsed after it was struck. A 500-foot part fell after the barge struck it, sending a number of car plunging into the water.
The incident left 14 folks useless. One other 11 folks had been injured.
On Sept. 15, 2001, the Queen Isabella Causeway collapsed in Port Isabel, Texas, leaving eight folks useless. The incident was prompted by a tugboat and a barge, which struck the bridge, inflicting a midsection of the bridge to tumble 80 toes into the bay beneath.
On Sept. 22, 1993, the Huge Bayou Canot railroad bridge close to Cell, Alabama collapsed after barges being pushed by a towboat in dense fog struck the bridge. Minutes later, an Amtrak practice with 220 folks aboard reached the bridge and derailed, leaving 47 folks useless and injuring 103 folks.
One other main collapse occurred on Might 9, 1980, when the Summit Enterprise vessel was navigating by means of the slender, winding delivery channel of Florida’s Tampa Bay. After the ship’s radar was knocked out, the 609-foot freighter hit a assist of the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, inflicting a 1,400-foot part of concrete roadway to fall.
The collapse brought on six autos and a bus with 26 aboard to fall 150 toes into the water. Thirty-five folks died.
Different non-fatal, main collapses embrace the Popp’s Ferry Bridge in Biloxi, Mississippi on March 20, 2009; and, the Eads Bridge collapse on the Mississippi River, close to the St. Louis Harbor, on April 14, 1998, left 50 injured.
In keeping with the World Affiliation for Waterborne Transport Infrastructure, there have been 35 main bridge collapses worldwide because of ship or barge collisions from 1960 to 2015.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
Thu, 28 Mar 2024 00:04:28 -0400
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The Singaporean-flagged Dali ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning underwent “routine engine upkeep” in port earlier than the crash, an official with the U.S. Coast Guard stated Wednesday.
U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath stated at a information convention that authorities had been knowledgeable that the ship was going to endure the upkeep however stated there have been no identified points with the ship’s engine.
“So far as the engine goes, we weren’t knowledgeable of any issues with the vessel,” he stated.
The Dali left port at 12:39 a.m. on Tuesday and entered the waterway. It then started experiencing indicators of bother and sounded quite a few alarms at roughly 1:25 a.m., in response to the NTSB. Simply after 1:27 a.m., the pilot commanded the ship to drop an anchor and inside two minutes, the vessel collided with the bridge.
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In keeping with inspection information, the vessel was additionally flagged for 2 deficiencies between 2015 and 2023.
Equasis reported that the Dali had 27 recorded inspections from April 20, 2015 and Sept. 13, 2023, throughout which period there have been two deficiencies discovered.
On Nov. 27, 2016, the information present the ship was flagged for “hull harm impairing seaworthiness,” in Antwerp, Belgium.
Then on June 27, 2023, the ship was flagged for a difficulty categorized underneath propulsion and auxiliary equipment, and sub categorized as “gauges, thermometers, and so on.”
Its most up-to-date inspection was carried out by the U.S. Coast Guard in New York on Sept. 13, 2023, when no deficiencies had been reported.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:32:01 -0400
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The black field aboard the Dali, the Singaporean-flagged cargo ship that crashed right into a assist beam of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, inflicting it to break down, is vital to determining what was happening with the ship’s engine moments earlier than the crash, a maritime professional stated.
“That black field could be the vessel knowledge recorder,” Sal Mercogliano, a former service provider mariner, stated on “Your World with Neil Cavuto.” “So it could have all of the readings from the engine room, every part that doubtlessly led to the lack of energy on the vessel.”
He added: “It could even have all of the instrumentation from the bridge. And doubtless most fascinating for everyone is a voice recorder that information the conversations on the bridge, that dialog between the ship’s pilots that had been on board, serving to to navigate the vessel and the ship’s grasp.”
Investigators with the Nationwide Transportation Security Board recovered the black field on Wednesday.
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Mercogliano stated the ship suffered electrical system failure however that was not the rationale its anchor didn’t cease it from hitting the assist construction.
“Thankfully, the anchors, their brakes, don’t require energy,” he stated. “So that you simply should launch them. However it’s important to take into consideration the second after they needed to launch it. A ship at eight knots, about ten miles an hour, 115,000 tons. An anchor goes to have a tough time stopping it. And it’s really not like within the films the place you see that.”
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 23:38:27 -0400
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Maryland authorities stated Wednesday that two our bodies have been recovered after a cargo ship slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge on Tuesday morning.
Maryland State Police Superintendent Roland Butler recognized the victims as Alejandro Hernandez Fuentes, 35, of Baltimore and Dorlian Castillo Cabrera, 26, of Dundalk.
Divers discovered the victims inside a purple pickup truck submerged underneath roughly 25 toes water within the center span of the bridge.
Butler stated the lads’s households have been notified by authorities.
“Primarily based upon the situations, we’re now transferring from a restoration mode to a salvage operation due to the superstructure surrounding what we consider are the autos and the quantity of concrete and particles, divers are now not capable of safely navigate or function round that within the areas round this wreckage,” Butler stated.
“The collapse of the Key Bridge is not only a Maryland disaster. The collapse of a key bridge is a world disaster. The nationwide financial system and the world’s financial system depends upon the port of Baltimore,” Gov. Wes Moore stated. “The port handles extra vehicles and extra farm tools than another port within the nation.”
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:57:19 -0400
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Guatemalan President Bernardo Arévalo has instructed the Guatemalan consulate in Maryland to offer updates on the seek for the development staff who went lacking within the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse early Tuesday.
Not less than two Guatemalan residents are amongst these lacking. The others are from Honduras and Mexico, in response to diplomats from these international locations.
President Arévalo requested the consulate “accompany the household [of those missing] within the vital procedures.”
“In these tough instances, my solidarity and a focus are with them and their households,” he stated.
Investigators had been establishing proof Wednesday from the cargo ship that slammed into the bridge, inflicting it to break down. Down within the waters beneath divers had been looking out by means of the twisted metallic for six development staff who plunged into the harbor and had been feared useless.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:17:49 -0400
An obscure Nineteenth century regulation might doubtlessly restrict the legal responsibility for the proprietor of the cargo ship that slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge Tuesday morning, sending the construction, together with staff and autos, into the water beneath.
The 1851 regulation, if enacted, might save Grace Ocean, the Singapore-based proprietor of the container ship, a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
Tulane College’s Maritime Regulation Centre director Martin Davis informed The Straits Occasions that the regulation might decrease Grace Ocean’s authorized woes to solely tens of hundreds of thousands of {dollars}.
The regulation was initially applied to assist delivery giants keep away from devastating losses from disasters whereas out at sea. The regulation was cited in a Supreme Court docket case involving the Titanic greater than a century in the past.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:22:28 -0400
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday appeared to stroll again feedback from President Joe Biden that U.S. taxpayers would foot the invoice for the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
Showing on MSNBC Wednesday, Yellen stated cash from the bipartisan infrastructure regulation that might “doubtlessly be useful.”
“My expectation could be that in the end there’ll be insurance coverage funds, partly, to cowl this. However we don’t need to enable worrying about the place the financing will come from to carry up reconstruction,” Yellen stated.
Her feedback come a day after Biden stated it was his “intention that the federal authorities will pay for the complete value of reconstructing that bridge, and I anticipate the Congress to assist my effort.”
Biden stated that, whereas the trouble will take a while, the folks of Baltimore “can rely on us.”
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:34:40 -0400
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Singaporean officers say they are going to conduct their very own investigation into the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse along with supporting U.S. authorities.
The ship that struck the bridge, the Dali, had been touring underneath a Singaporean flag. The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore stated Wednesday it was working with the ship’s administration firm, Synergy Marine Group, to get info to the U.S. Coast Guard for its investigation.
The company additionally stated Singapore’s Transport Security Investigation Bureau will independently examine, to not decide legal responsibility, however to establish classes for the long run.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:54:49 -0400
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The Singapore-flagged cargo ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, inflicting its collapse, was transporting containers with hazardous supplies, the U.S. Coast Guard stated.
Vice Admiral Peter Gautier stated through the White Home press briefing that of the 4700 containers on board the Dali, 56 comprise hazardous supplies and two are lacking overboard. Those which are within the water don’t comprise hazardous supplies, he informed reporters.
“There isn’t a menace to the general public from the hazardous supplies on board,” Gautier stated.
A specialised hazmat workforce went aboard the ship to examine the cargo.
“The vast majority of these containers are nearer to the pilot home and are fully unaffected by the harm to the bow of the ship,” he stated. “And we now have not decided that there is any form of launch right now.”
“The actual crucial factor right here is that, as , a portion of the bridge stays on the bow on that ship, and we will likely be coordinating very intently with the Military Corps of Engineers and their contractors to first impact the elimination of that particles earlier than the vessel can then be eliminated,” Gautier added. “The vessel bow is sitting on the underside due to the load of that bridge particles on there.”
The Coast Guard will likely be working with the Military Corps of Engineers to steer the cleanup of the Patapsco River so the Port of Baltimore can get again to full operation, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg informed reporters.
Fox Information Digital’s Greg Norman contributed to this replace.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:09:44 -0400
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg delivered an replace on the Baltimore bridge collapse restoration effort at Wednesday’s White Home press briefing.
The secretary outlined the steps the Division of Transportation is taking to reopen the Port of Baltimore, cope with provide chain points till the port reopens, rebuild the bridge and deal with transportation reroutes till the bridge is restored.
“Rebuilding won’t be fast, or simple or low-cost. However we are going to get it executed,” Buttigieg stated.
The U.S. Coast Guard is coordinating with the Military Corps of Engineers to clear the channel and restore delivery entry to the Port of Baltimore. The Biden administration will use new regulatory authority established by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Regulation to “clean out provide chains” and “maintain items transferring,” in response to the secretary.
Buttigieg stated the Nationwide Transportation Security Board is main an unbiased investigation into the cargo ship accident that led to the bridge catastrophe. He stated President Biden will work with Congress “to offer all of the assist that Maryland and Baltimore wants.”
“This will likely be an extended and, tough path. However we are going to come collectively round Baltimore and we are going to rebuild collectively,” Buttigieg stated.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 16:30:23 -0400
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Nationwide Transportation Security Board Chair Jennifer Homendy informed Fox Information on Wednesday that her company has recovered the voyage knowledge recorder from the ship that struck the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore, inflicting it to break down.
“It information every part from velocity to location of the vessel,” Homendy stated, noting that the recorder has been despatched again to a lab for evaluation. “So we will share what occurred by means of a timeline of occasions main as much as the hanging of the bridge.”
“After which we hope to marry that with every part that occurred afterwards. Any form of notification, any form of mayday, any form of potential evacuation,” she added.
Homendy additionally stated the NTSB’s focus proper now’s on getting “perishable proof” from the Dali cargo ship, which stays caught underneath the collapsed metallic from the bridge.
“So as soon as we get on the vessel, hopefully right now we will get, another electronics that we need to take, another form of doc.
Fox Information’ Griff Jenkins contributed to this replace.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:38:22 -0400
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore ordered the state flag at half employees Wednesday to honor these misplaced within the Francis Scott Key Bridge catastrophe.
“Our whole state is grateful for the tireless work of our first responders and everybody who has stepped as much as serve prior to now 24 hours. Maryland is powerful and has risen to fulfill this second because the work continues right now,” Moore stated in an announcement.
“The hearts of each Marylander are with the households of these affected by the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge,” he continued. “We’ve got spoken to the households, prayed with them, and warranted them that our state will mobilize each useful resource to carry them closure.”
Not less than eight folks went into the water early Tuesday. Two had been rescued, however the different six — a part of a development crew that had been filling potholes on the bridge — had been lacking and presumed useless. A seek for their our bodies was underway Wednesday.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:37:28 -0400
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg will be part of White Home press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre at Wednesday’s afternoon press briefing.
Buttigieg and Vice Admiral Peter Gautier, Deputy Commandant for Operations for america Coast Guard, are anticipated to ship updates on the federal authorities’s response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland.
Earlier, Buttigieg informed Fox Information that People ought to put together for the availability chain impacts of delivery disruptions within the Port of Baltimore. “The bridge itself carried about 30,000 autos a day. There are tunnels that work as alternate options, however there’s going to be some impacts on site visitors. The opposite main concern proper now’s the port,” he stated on “America’s Newsroom.”
“One factor that is vital to grasp is, the way in which that the circulation of cargo ships is dealt with may be very totally different from one thing like air site visitors management, the place if, say, a runway goes out or there’s an issue at an airport and planes should divert, there’s a single authority telling these planes what to do and the place to go. It would not work that approach with ocean delivery,” the secretary defined.
“You’ve got acquired totally different shippers, totally different ports, totally different terminals, totally different cargo house owners. They’re underneath no requirement to speak to one another. However we have been utilizing the relationships and a few of the instruments we now have on the Division of Transportation to guarantee that coordination does occur.”
Buttigieg famous the Port of Baltimore is one in every of largest receivers of auto shipments in america, together with vehicles and farm tools.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:58:38 -0400
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Employees recovered a truck from the location of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse within the Patapsco River, however a minimum of one car stays hanging from metallic particles, in response to the Related Press.
The outlet cited a regulation enforcement official who had data of a Homeland Safety memo detailing the restoration.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Wednesday praised divers who’ve spent hours in frigid water.
“They’re down there in darkness the place they will actually see a couple of foot in entrance of them,” he stated. “They’re attempting to navigate mangled metallic and so they’re additionally in a spot it’s now presumed that folks have misplaced their lives, so the work of those first responders, the work of those divers, I can’t stress sufficient how exceptional these people are.”
A search is ongoing for the six development staff who’re presumed useless following the bridge collapse.
One of many lacking Brawner Builders workers has been recognized by Telemundo Washington D.C. as 49-year-old Miguel Luna of El Salvador, whose family say has six youngsters. Two Guatemalans aged 26 and 35 are additionally unaccounted for, in response to the nation’s international ministry, and a colleague has informed The Related Press that he was knowledgeable the six had been sitting of their vehicles throughout a break on the time of the catastrophe.
Fox Information Digital’s Greg Norman and the Related Press contributed to this report.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:14:08 -0400
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Rep. Jeff Van Drew, R-N.J., warned that the Francis Scott Key Bridge catastrophe might “in a short time” trigger main provide chain issues due to President Biden’s insurance policies.
Maryland officers have closed the Port of Baltimore whereas restoration efforts are underway within the Patapsco River the place the bridge fell. Ships will likely be unable to enter or exit the port till the mangled heap of metal particles from the bridge is cleared from the channel.
Van Drew, who sits on the Home Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, stated corporations that depend on the port to ship and obtain items will quickly have issues with their inventories.
“It’s so vital that we understand that the inventories that corporations have should not the identical inventories they used to have earlier than Joe Biden. As a result of inflation is so excessive, it is problematic for them to carry that many items in a single location,” Van Drew defined. “So, we’ll in a short time have issues with the availability chain.”
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 11:03:47 -0400
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Security investigators probing the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, are analyzing whether or not contaminated gasoline was an element within the cargo ship shedding energy and ramming the bridge.
Andrew Lipow, president of consulting agency Lipow Oil Associates, LLC, informed Fox Information there are two sorts of gasoline that vessels burn and defined the place so-called “soiled gasoline” comes from.
“Marine distillate fuels, often known as Marine Fuel Oil, is utilized in diesel engines. Then there may be Marine Residual Fuels which can be utilized in the principle engines. Some renewable fuels, equivalent to biodiesel or renewable diesel have not too long ago been used within the diesel engines,” Lipow defined.
Soiled diesel gasoline is a gasoline that could be contaminated with water or sediment picked up through the refining course of coming in with crude oil, or from the catalyst utilized in another refining processes, in response to Lipow.
“You would possibly suppose, how might refiners let this occur? They wash the crude with water to take away the sediment. The diesel gasoline have to be boiled out of the crude oil and infrequently comprises any stable materials after this step has taken place. Sediment can accumulate within the distribution system in tank bottoms and even barges and in the end be loaded onto a vessel,” he stated. “This may very well be a attainable supply of contamination. The trade does have high quality specs relating to the sediment content material.”
If soiled gasoline brought on the ability outage on the cargo ship Dali, the extra doubtless wrongdoer could be soiled residual gasoline, Lipow defined.
“Residual gasoline oil is produced from the heaviest a part of the crude oil, the ‘backside of the barrel.’ Different heavy oil streams are produced at a few of the downstream models that are blended into residual gasoline and these streams could comprise catalyst particulates,” he stated.
“These ‘backside of the barrel’ heavy oil streams could also be sourced from a number of refiners and blended to provide the Marine Residual Gas. In some circumstances, they could be incompatible with one another that means that upon mixing, solids will type and that plugs up the gasoline injectors ravenous the engine of gasoline,” he continued. “No gasoline: no energy.”
Lipow stated sediment can collect within the distribution system in tank bottoms and even barges and in the end be loaded onto a vessel.
“The very nature of residual fuels being heavy is extra prone to result in this being a possible supply of ‘soiled gasoline,'” he stated.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 10:29:19 -0400
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg appeared on “America’s Newsroom” Wednesday to debate his go to to the location of the Baltimore bridge collapse and ongoing restoration efforts.
Buttigieg stated the Division of Transportation’s instant purpose is to clear the channel in Baltimore Harbor and restore delivery entry to the port.
“After all, the last word purpose is to clear that channel, get that port again up and working as rapidly as attainable. However that is not going to occur in a single day. So we have to cope with the implications,” Buttigieg stated.
The secretary noticed that it took 5 years to construct the Francis Scott Key Bridge earlier than it opened in 1977 and stated there may be not but an estimate of how lengthy it should take to rebuild.
“The president made it very clear that each instrument that the federal authorities must be obtainable to Governor Wes Moore because the state of Maryland leads the work on each the bridge and the port,” he informed “America’s Newsroom.”
“We have got to guarantee that funding just isn’t an impediment, and we’ll guarantee that we tear down any administrative boundaries, too. And that is going to require a variety of work. We will do every part we are able to as a division that doesn’t require an act of Congress. However we’re additionally going to have interaction Congress as a result of we are going to doubtless want their assist to verify a few of the funding is in place.”
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:36:50 -0400
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stated Wednesday it’s too early to say if anybody is at fault for the cargo ship accident that brought on the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
However he added that if anybody is discovered to be accountable, they have to be held accountable.
When requested if these liable ought to pay to rebuild the bridge, Moore informed Fox Information’ Griff Jenkins, “I believe it is too early within the investigation to know that.”
“However the factor that I do know is that if persons are discovered to be discovered to held accountable for what occurred, there must be accountability for that,” Moore stated.
The Democratic governor, now thrust into the nationwide highlight by Tuesday’s tragedy, stated the highest precedence for his administration is to get the Port of Baltimore reopened and shield the livelihoods of staff who depend on it.
“The factor that we need to remind folks is we now have to verify our staff are protected,” Moore stated. “That they had nothing to do with this. The opposite factor is we have to have the ability to focus and get our financial engine going once more. We have got to get that bridge rebuilt and we now have to get this this port reopened.”
The governor stated rebuilding efforts will likely be “lengthy” and “sophisticated,” and would require federal help. President Biden has pledged emergency funds to Maryland to help with catastrophe restoration and known as on Congress to cross extra funds.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:35:24 -0400
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore joined “Fox & Mates” Wednesday morning to offer an replace on restoration efforts after the Francis Scott Key Bridge catastrophe.
The bridge collapsed early Tuesday morning after a cargo ship misplaced energy and struck one in every of its assist piers. Six development staff who had been on the bridge are presumed useless, officers stated. Two had been pulled from the water by rescuers, one in crucial situation who was hospitalized.
Moore informed “Fox & Mates” that officers don’t have any indication there have been any non-public civilians driving on the bridge on the time of its collapse. “We don’t have any indication as of proper now of particular person residents that that had been that had been caught on this,” the governor stated.
He added that authorities on the bridge who had been capable of halt site visitors when the ship issued a mayday alert prevented the disaster from being worse.
“They’re heroes, and so they saved numerous lives,” Moore stated.
The governor stated divers are within the Patapsco River Wednesday morning working in “pitch darkish” and “chilly” to recuperate the our bodies of these killed for his or her households.
“We have moved on to a restoration mission,” Moore stated. “We’re going to expend each effort to carry them closure.”
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:43:25 -0400
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As Maryland authorities cope with the aftermath of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge on the Baltimore Beltway, one other state’s former governor who dealt with an analogous tragedy spoke out to Fox Information.
Former Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty informed “Your World” Tuesday there are many similarities but in addition some apparent variations between what occurred in Maryland early Tuesday and the 2007 incident in Minneapolis when a structural flaw introduced the I-35W bridge tumbling right down to the Mississippi River beneath. 13 folks died and 145 had been injured in that collapse.
“[There are] so many similarities,” Pawlenty informed “Your World. “The shock, the grief, the unhappiness, the expression duly of condolences to the households and the victims are all prime of thoughts. However then, in fact, concurrently, a rush of different issues.”
Pawlenty stated he expects the all-hands-on-deck restoration effort lauded by Maryland Democratic Gov. Wes Moore to proceed, simply as his personal did when he oversaw the I-35W restoration.
Nonetheless, in contrast to in Minneapolis, the place the NTSB launched into an investigation into the construction itself, Pawlenty surmised investigators will focus moreso on purported mechanical failures on the Singapore-flagged container ship that struck the Key Bridge shortly after setting sail down the Patapsco River from the Port of Baltimore.
“[I]t appears to be like like that is going to shift from what occurred to the bridge to what occurred on the ship…” Pawlenty stated.
Fox Information Digital’s Charles Creitz contributed to this replace.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:21:58 -0400
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A seek for the six development staff who’re presumed useless following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore resumed Wednesday morning as particulars are rising about their identities and the households they depart behind.
One of many lacking Brawner Builders workers has been recognized by Telemundo Washington D.C. as 49-year-old Miguel Luna of El Salvador, whose family say has six youngsters. Two Guatemalans aged 26 and 35 are additionally unaccounted for, in response to the nation’s international ministry, and a colleague has informed The Related Press that he was knowledgeable the six had been sitting of their vehicles throughout a break on the time of the catastrophe.
“It’s so arduous for me to explain. I do know {that a} month in the past I used to be there, and I do know what it appears like when the trailers cross. Think about realizing that it’s falling. It’s so arduous, one wouldn’t know what to do,” Brawner Builders worker Jesus Campos stated.
Additionally among the many lacking are folks from Honduras and Mexico, diplomats say. The Honduran man was recognized as Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandova, The Related Press studies.
Operators of the Dali cargo ship had issued a mayday name that the vessel had misplaced energy moments earlier than the crash, however the ship nonetheless headed towards the span at “a really, very speedy velocity,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stated Tuesday.
The 985-foot-long vessel struck one of many 1.6-mile-long bridge’s helps, inflicting the span to interrupt and fall into the water inside seconds.
An emergency responder may very well be heard on dispatch audio mentioning that development staff had been working on the bridge through the collapse, and an “unknown quantity of these staff [were] within the water.” That prompted a name for a dive workforce.
The Guatemalan Overseas Ministry later stated in an announcement that “Two Guatemalans, 26 and 35 years previous, initially from San Luis, Petén and Camotán, Chiquimula, respectively; are lacking after the accident that occurred early this Tuesday, March 26, when a cargo ship misplaced management on the Patapsco River, colliding with the Francis Scott Key Bridge.”
“The Guatemalans had been a part of a complete of eight staff who had been repairing the asphalt on the bridge on the time of the accident,” it added. “Two males had been rescued, however one in every of them is in crucial situation.”
Fox Information Digital’s Greg Norman, Bradford Betz and the Related Press contributed to this replace.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:07:13 -0400
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The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore on Tuesday after a container ship misplaced energy navigating the channel and collided with one of many bridge’s assist pilings has resulted within the indefinite closure of the Port of Baltimore, which is able to impression the availability chain on the Jap Seaboard and past.
Jean-Paul Rodrigue, a professor within the Division of Maritime Enterprise Administration at Texas A&M College – Galveston, informed FOX Enterprise that corporations with cargo sure for Baltimore are working to reroute these shipments to different ports with the capability to deal with
“The primary candidate will likely be New York, then it’ll be Hampton Roads, which is in Virginia, Philadelphia – but it surely’s additionally a decrease capability, so it’s kind of tougher for Philadelphia,” Rodrigue stated. “However New York and Hampton Roads can deal with this site visitors.”
He added that it could not be an issue for these ports to deal with the site visitors from “ro/ro” ships – which might accommodate vehicles driving on and driving off – given Baltimore’s function as a key port for vehicle shipments.
The Port of Baltimore handles extra auto cargo than another U.S. port with 750,000 autos flowing by means of the port in 2022, in response to port knowledge. Ford and Basic Motors every introduced that they’re working to reroute auto shipments that had been scheduled to go to Baltimore and stated the impression could be minimal.
The port additionally serves as a hub for different items together with coal, because it was the second-busiest port for coal exports in 2023. It is usually the biggest port by quantity for farm and development equipment, in addition to sugar and salt. Its indefinite closure might create bottlenecks within the provide chain, leading to delays and better prices for sure items on the Jap Seaboard.
In February, the Maryland governor’s workplace introduced that the Port of Baltimore’s private and non-private terminals dealt with a report 52.3 million tons of international cargo valued at $80 billion in 2023, a report quantity of cargo. That determine consists of about 1.3 million tons of ro/ro farm and development tools plus 11.7 million tons of basic cargo tons. It additionally dealt with 1.1 million 21-foot equal unit containers.
Baltimore space residents are additionally going to face elevated site visitors congestion with the bridge out of motion. The Francis Scott Key Bridge, named for the creator of the U.S. nationwide anthem, is a key thoroughfare that had a median site visitors quantity of 31,000 vehicles per day or 11.3 million autos per yr on the I-695 freeway.
FOX Enterprise’ Eric Revell and Reuters contributed to this replace.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 07:34:13 -0400
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A former service provider marine captain – who’s traveled out and in of the Baltimore port “numerous instances” – defined what occurs when a mechanical error happens on cargo ships.
“While you have a look at these incidents, sometimes you may have a look at human error, you may have a look at mechanical error and probably some form of safety concern. At preliminary look, it appears to be like right here like it’s a mechanical error,” former Cpt. Klaus Luhta stated on “Varney & Co.”
“There are some circumstances the place when a ship loses propulsion, you simply don’t have any approach of controlling it,” he continued. “And this seems to be a kind of catastrophes the place it was simply out of the arms of what anyone might do.”
The Francis Scott Key Bridge alongside I-695 in Maryland tragically collapsed into Baltimore harbor following a “ship strike,” officers stated.
A number of autos and staff had been on the bridge on the time of its collapse. On Tuesday, two folks had been pulled from the water, one in crucial situation. Search and rescue operations for a minimum of six others had been suspended that night at 7:30 p.m.ET.
The Maryland governor’s workplace confirmed {that a} cargo ship misplaced energy and despatched a mayday warning earlier than hitting the Baltimore bridge.
The large container ship named DALI has beforehand collided with infrastructure whereas docking, in response to studies that present DALI collided with a stone wall at a dock in Antwerp, Belgium, within the afternoon of July 11, 2016.
The container ship suffered harm and was docked for repairs, however nobody was injured within the collision, in response to The New York Occasions.
“You are accelerating the vessel as you allow the port, so as to maneuver underneath that bridge and thru the channels successfully,” Luhta defined. “So it is doubtless that as [an] improve in velocity was occurring, there was a propulsion failure. It seems that approach from the video.”
Fox Enterprise’ Kristen Altus contributed to this replace.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 05:56:38 -0400
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Maryland’s newly elected Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, who many consider has ambitions for larger workplace, was thrust into the nationwide highlight on Tuesday and reacted to the primary catastrophic occasion on his watch when a container ship toppled a bridge inflicting a number of deaths.
“This morning, our state is in shock and I need to take this second to talk on to the folks of our state,” Moore, who took workplace in January of final yr, stated throughout a press convention on Tuesday morning.
“To our first responders. I am in awe of you. I am in awe of your whole braveness and your whole energy. I am in awe of every part you do for every one in every of us. You noticed a disaster and also you stated, what can I do to assist? And our response groups are doing every part in our energy to rescue and recuperate the victims of this collapse, actually, as we converse, individuals who, as we converse, are on the market, our divers, our air belongings. Folks proper now working to avoid wasting lives and are doing it as a result of the state requested and we are going to replace the general public because the work continues.”
Moore was reacting to information and video of a giant container ship slamming into the Francis Scott Key Bridge within the Baltimore harbor on Monday evening sending the bridge crashing into the water.
The crew of the cargo ship, originating out of India, issued a mayday within the moments earlier than the catastrophe in time for authorities to cease site visitors from coming into the bridge, limiting the variety of autos concerned in what officers have known as a “mass casualty occasion.”
“We’re grateful that between the mayday and the collapse that we had officers who had been capable of start to cease the circulation of site visitors so extra vehicles weren’t on the bridge,” Moore stated.
Authorities stated a crew of eight development staff had been on the bridge, along with any site visitors on the time of the collapse. It’s unclear precisely how many individuals had been killed within the accident however a minimum of 6 persons are unaccounted for after 2 had been rescued from the water.
The disaster represents the primary take a look at the place Moore’s management will likely be thrust into the nationwide highlight slightly over a yr after he received the Maryland gubernatorial main with President Biden’s assistance on the marketing campaign path after which defeated Republican Dan Cox by over 30 factors.
Fox Information’ Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 05:50:00 -0400
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The proprietor of the Singapore-flagged ship that crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, inflicting it to break down, might face a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in harm claims after it despatched autos into the water and and impacted the japanese U.S. transportation community.
Authorized consultants, nonetheless, stated there’s a method to scale back legal responsibility underneath an obscure Nineteenth-century regulation as soon as invoked by the proprietor of the Titanic to restrict its payout for that ship’s sinking in 1912, in response to The Straits Occasions.
Singapore-based Grace Ocean is the proprietor of the container ship known as Dali that crashed into the bridge on Tuesday on its journey chartered by the delivery large Maersk. Damages claims are prone to fall on the ship proprietor.
The corporate might face many lawsuits from a number of events, together with from the bridge’s proprietor and the households of six staff who had been presumed useless on the conclusion of a search and rescue mission within the Patapsco River.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 04:55:30 -0400
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A security investigation into the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, will embrace whether or not contaminated gasoline was a consider a cargo ship shedding energy and crashing into the bridge.
The lights on the Dali started to flicker about an hour into the ship’s journey early Tuesday. A harbor pilot and assistant reported energy points and a lack of propulsion previous to the collision, in response to a Coast Guard briefing report.
“The vessel went useless, no steering energy and no electronics,” an officer aboard the ship stated Tuesday. “One of many engines coughed after which stopped. The scent of burned gasoline was in all places within the engine room and it was pitch black.”
The ship didn’t have sufficient time to drop anchors to cease drifting, in response to the officer, and crew members issued a mayday name earlier than the crash occurred.
Blackouts at sea are unusual, however they do occur and have lengthy been seen as a main accident threat for ships on the water.
One reason behind ship blackouts is contaminated gasoline that may create issues with its important energy turbines, stated Fotis Pagoulatos, a naval architect. He stated an entire blackout might end in a ship shedding propulsion and that smaller turbines can kick in, however they’re unable to hold all of the features of the principle ones and take time to start out.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 03:19:08 -0400
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The U.S. Military Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District introduced it has activated its Emergency Operations Middle to permit greater than 1,100 engineering, development, contracting and operations specialists to offer assist to native, state and federal companies after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
USACE stated it should lead the trouble to clear the federal channel as a part of the bigger interagency restoration effort. It stated it’s working with native, state and federal companions to find out the strikes required to take away the collapsed bridge.
USACE is offering:
• Licensed underwater evaluation capabilities by Structural Skilled Engineers, Remotely Operated Car and sonar;
• Structural Engineering assist, together with licensed bridge security inspectors and concrete search and rescue structural technical specialists;
• Waterway particles administration, led by USACE particles elimination vessel REYNOLDS, which patrols the waters of the Baltimore Harbor and Patapsco River for drift and particles that may very well be hazardous to navigation.
“Our ideas are with these impacted by the tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge,” Baltimore District Commander Col. Estee Pinchasin stated. “Our Emergency Managers are intently monitoring the incident and coordinating with associate companies for any potential assist requests.”
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:26:15 -0400
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The Minnesota Division of Transportation introduced Tuesday that the I-35W bridge in Minneapolis will likely be lit up in Maryland’s state colours of purple, black and yellow as a present of assist for Baltimore residents following the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
“Tonight, the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River will likely be lit purple, white, yellow and black—the colours of Maryland’s flag,” the Minnesota Division of Transportation wrote Tuesday evening on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter.
“Our ideas are with these injured or nonetheless lacking, and with the courageous first responders following this morning’s bridge tragedy in Baltimore,” the publish continued.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 23:10:26 -0400
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday morning after a cargo ship crashed into the span. The 1.6-mile bridge carries Interstate 695 in Baltimore, Maryland, and crosses the Patapsco River. The collision was captured on a livestream, with site visitors transferring alongside the bridge and development crews engaged on the construction.
Here’s a timeline of occasions that occurred on March 26, 2024.
Dali, a giant 948-foot-long container ship that may ultimately collide with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, left port from Baltimore Harbor. The ship was headed on a month-long voyage to Colombo, Sri Lanka. Minutes earlier than 1:30 a.m., Dali misplaced energy; lights on the vessel flickered because it headed towards a assist pillar of the bridge.
Fox Information’ Breana Scheckwitz contributed to this report.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 22:05:37 -0400
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Marine Visitors animations present the pathway of the Dali container ship earlier than it collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore at about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday.
The animations, which had been posted by the Related Press, first present the Dali leaving the delivery docks earlier than heading towards the bridge and coming to a cease as soon as it reached it.
Within the second animation, numerous rescue boats are seen responding to the Dali after it struck the bridge, inflicting it to plunge into the river beneath.
Singapore-based Synergy Marine Group owns and manages the 985-foot-long vessel and confirmed on Tuesday in an announcement that the ship hit a pillar underneath the bridge, which brought on the construction to break down.
All crew members and the 2 pilots on board had been accounted for, although six out of eight development crew members who had been engaged on the bridge when it fell have nonetheless not been discovered.
On Tuesday evening, the Coast Guard known as off search efforts, including the six lacking staff are presumed to be useless.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:22:12 -0400
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Dispatch audio from emergency responders captured the tense ambiance after a cargo ship rammed into Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday, inflicting it to be fully destroyed.
Operators of the Dali cargo ship had issued a mayday name that the vessel had misplaced energy moments earlier than the crash, however the ship nonetheless headed towards the span at “a really, very speedy velocity,” Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stated.
The 985-foot-long vessel struck one of many 1.6-mile lengthy bridge’s helps, inflicting the span to interrupt and fall into the water inside seconds.
An emergency responder may very well be heard on the dispatch audio mentioning that development staff had been working on the bridge through the collapse, and an “unknown quantity of these staff [were] within the water.” That prompted a name for a dive workforce.
Later within the name, one other dispatcher says the “important portion” of the bridge had collapsed into the water, inflicting autos to be “plummetted and submerged” within the water. Dispatchers additionally point out that police have begun stopping autos from coming into the bridge.
One other dispatcher described it as a “mass casualty” incident.
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Bradford Betz and Brooke Curto of Fox Information Digital contributed to this report.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:16:23 -0400
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President Biden stated Tuesday he commuted by practice or automotive over the Francis Scott Key Bridge “many, many instances,” regardless of the bridge not having any rail strains.
Throughout a press convention Tuesday on the most important bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, Biden informed reporters that he has been over the Francis Scott Key Bridge “many, many instances” by practice or automotive.
“At about 1:30 [a.m. Tuesday], a container ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which I’ve been over many, many instances commuting from the state of Delaware both on a practice or by automotive,” the president stated.
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Sarah Rumpf-Whitten of Fox Information Digital contributed to this report.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:52:22 -0400
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Carnival Cruise Line, which presents voyages out of Baltimore Harbor, stated it’s briefly transferring the Carnival Legend’s operations to Norfolk, Virginia as rescue and remediation efforts proceed following the collapse of the Key Bridge early Tuesday morning.
The vessel is at present on a cruise and is scheduled to return on Sunday.
However fairly than go up the Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore, it should dangle a left earlier than heading up the bay, and cruise into Norfolk. Passengers aboard the ship will likely be supplied with complimentary bus service again to Baltimore after disembarking the ship.
Legend’s subsequent cruise leaves on March 31, when it should embark on a seven-day voyage out of Norfolk, as a substitute of Baltimore. The cruise line stated all visitors on present and upcoming cruises are being knowledgeable of the change.
“Our ideas stay with the impacted households and first responders in Baltimore,” Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line stated. “We recognize the pledge made by President Biden right now to dedicate all obtainable assets to reopen Baltimore Harbor to marine site visitors as quickly as attainable. As these plans are finalized, we are going to replace our future cruise visitors on after we will return house to Baltimore, however within the meantime, we recognize the fast response and assist from officers in Norfolk.”
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 06:58:17 -0400
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The U.S. Coast Guard and Maryland State Police introduced they had been suspending the seek for six development staff who went lacking when the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed into the Patapsco River early Tuesday morning.
Throughout a press convention, officers stated they don’t consider the six development staff could be discovered alive, including they had been suspending search and rescue efforts at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Divers are anticipated to reenter the water after 6 a.m. on Wednesday, officers added.
The chilly water temps, low visibility and impending climate situations all factored into the choice to grab search and rescue operations.
“We’re doing our perfect,” Maryland State Police Col. Roland Butler informed reporters.
He defined that the very last thing he and others need to do is put divers within the water the place a lot metallic and particles from the collapsed bridge now rests.
Butler stated all it takes is one object hanging one of many divers and creating extra search efforts.
He was requested by reporters about the potential of autos being on the bridge when it collapsed and stated, there’s a distinct chance.
Whereas the Maryland Division of Transportation was capable of shut down site visitors, Butler stated, it’s attainable a automotive might have been on the bridge, although there is no such thing as a info right now to assist that state of affairs.
He additionally stated there’s a super quantity of particles within the water and containers hanging off the ship. Whereas they have no idea the place the our bodies are, Butler stated they will give it their greatest effort to search out the our bodies to offer the households closure.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:12:31 -0400
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A Sparrows Level, Maryland, fisherman informed Reuters throughout an interview on Tuesday morning that it was arduous to consider the Francis Scott Key Bridge was gone, including he thought it was a joke at first.
Capt. Steve Waters of Island Canine Charters is a fisherman out of Sparrows Level, which is on the northern aspect of the Patapsco River, the place the Francis Scott Key Bridge reconnected with land earlier than it collapsed on Tuesday morning.
Waters informed Reuters throughout a video interview that his son was working within the space and despatched him a textual content to see if he heard a noise.
Together with the textual content, Waters’ son despatched him a video of the bridge being hit.
“I believed it was a joke at first as a result of he generally comes up with concepts, and I believed it was one in every of his jokes or one thing,” Waters stated.
He then stated it was arduous to consider the bridge was gone, particularly since it’s used a lot.
The constitution boat captain stated it at all times appeared ships had been going to hit the underside of the bridge whereas vehicles drove over it, but it surely was by no means as shut because it appeared.
Video taken through the interview exhibits the aftermath of the crash, which Waters says has the waterways just about shut down inside a mile of the accident scene.
Nonetheless, the bridge is essential to the realm, and now that it’s gone, autos will both should go across the Baltimore Beltway or undergo the Baltimore Harbor tunnels.
“That is actually going to gradual issues down,” he stated.
Reuters contributed to this report.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:36:42 -0400
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Singapore-based Synergy Marine PTE Ltd, house owners of the Dali, issued an announcement concerning the ship’s collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, confirming the protection of its crew and the 2 pilots, and lack of air pollution.
The assertion confirmed that the ship was underneath pilotage with two pilots on board when it crashed into the bridge at about 1:30 a.m. on March 26.
“All crew members, together with the 2 pilots have been accounted for and there are not any studies of any accidents,” the assertion learn. “There has additionally been no air pollution.”
The corporate added that the reason for the incident has but to be decided, and the ship has mobilized its Certified Particular person Incident response service.
“The US Coast Guard and native officers have been notified, and the house owners and managers are totally cooperating with Federal and State authorities companies underneath an authorized plan,” the corporate stated.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:08:41 -0400
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The Maryland Division of Transportation, on Saturday, shared a photograph on social media of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in 1977, celebrating the forty seventh anniversary of the bridge.
“The Francis Scott Key Bridge (I-695) opened to site visitors as the ultimate hyperlink in I-695 (the Baltimore Beltway),” the publish learn. “Proven right here throughout its development interval that started in 1972, the 1.6-mile Key Bridge crosses over the Patapsco River.”
The publish continues by noting that students consider the bridge crosses inside 100 yards of the identical location the place Francis Scott Key witnessed the bombardment of Fort McHenry on Sept. 12, 1814.
Key’s credited with writing the phrases of “The Star Spangled Banner.”
Simply three days after the image was posted, a container ship collided with the bridge, inflicting it to break down into the river.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 18:39:03 -0400
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The Dali container ship, which crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning, was flagged for 2 deficiencies between 2015 and 2023, in response to inspection information.
Equasis reported that the Dali had 27 recorded inspections from April 20, 2015 and Sept. 13, 2023, throughout which period there have been two deficiencies discovered.
On Nov. 27, 2016, the information present the ship was flagged for “hull harm impairing seaworthiness,” in Antwerp, Belgium.
Then on June 27, 2023, the ship was flagged for a difficulty categorized underneath propulsion and auxiliary equipment, and sub categorized as “gauges, thermometers, and so on.”
Throughout two different inspections later that day in San Antonio, Chile, there have been no different deficiencies reported.
The newest inspection carried out on the ship, in response to the information, was executed by the U.S. Coast Guard in New York on Sept. 13, 2023, when no deficiencies had been reported.
Madeleine Rivera of Fox Information contributed to this report.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:40:30 -0400
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Tuesday morning’s Baltimore bridge collapse brought on a transportation catastrophe and a search and rescue effort for development staff who had been current on the bridge on the time of the container ship’s impression. The Francis Scott Key Bridge is a significant transportation connector all through the Baltimore space, with greater than 30,000 autos touring it day by day.
The place is the bridge situated in Baltimore?
The bridge crosses the Patapsco River on I-695 and serves the Port of Baltimore. It’s situated close to the place Francis Scott Key discovered inspiration for “The Star-Spangled Banner” nationwide anthem, which is how the bridge aptly obtained its identify.
What sort of bridge is the Francis Scott Key Bridge?
The Francis Scott Key Bridge is a steel-truss arch bridge. Truss bridges are constructed with linked triangular buildings (trusses). USbridge.com states that this development has a robust load-bearing capability.
In keeping with the American Society of Civil Engineers, this Baltimore bridge is the second-longest truss bridge in america and third longest on this planet.
In keeping with the Maryland Division of Transportation, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was 1.6 miles lengthy earlier than the collapse. It’s a four-lane bridge construction. All the part, together with strategy roadways, is 10.9 miles lengthy.
How previous is the bridge?
Building started on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in 1972. The bridge formally opened in March 1977.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:13:43 -0400
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The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) has supplied to ship a workforce to assist with the Nationwide Transportation Security Board’s investigation into the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore early Tuesday morning.
In an announcement, the MPA stated it could be sending a workforce of investigators to Maryland.
In the identical assertion, the MPA stated the administration firm of the container ship Dali, Synergy Marine PTE Ltd, reported that simply earlier than the incident, the vessel skilled a lack of propulsion.
The propulsion loss prevented the crew from sustaining course and it collided with the bridge, the assertion defined.
“The vessel was reported to have dropped its anchors as a part of the vessel’s emergency procedures previous to its impression with the bridge,” the assertion learn. “The vessel was underneath
pilotage on the time of the incident.”
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy informed reporters on Tuesday she was involved along with her counterpart at MPA Singapore relating to the bridge crash.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:47:49 -0400
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The corporate that employed the development crew engaged on the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore when it collapsed early Tuesday morning stated all six staff are presumed to be useless, whereas one other was hospitalized, in response to studies.
The Related Press reported that Brawner Builders government vp Jeffrey Pritzker stated the crew was working in the midst of the bridge’s span when it was struck and fell into the water.
The our bodies of six staff have but to be recovered, although Pritzker stated they’re presumed to have died as a result of depth of the water and period of time that has handed.
He informed the AP the collapse was “fully unexpected,” and didn’t know what else to say on the matter.
“We take such nice delight in security, and we now have cones and indicators and lights and boundaries and flaggers,” Pritzker added. “However we by no means foresaw that the bridge would collapse.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:24:05 -0400
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stated the realm has an extended street forward after the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday morning.
Moore was joined by Nationwide Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Maryland’s U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and others throughout a press convention on Tuesday afternoon.
The governor stated he has been involved with everybody from Biden admin to congressional delegation to philanthropic group which has supplied assist.
Nonetheless, he stated the scenario on the bridge remains to be very a lot a search and rescue mission, including that the state won’t maintain again from deploying a single useful resource to assist out with restoration efforts.
Buttigieg referred to the bridge as “one of many cathedrals of American infrastructure, and harassed the significance of reopening Baltimore port as provide chains are anticipated to be impacted.
“The trail to normalcy won’t be simple. It won’t be fast. It won’t be cheap,” Buttigieg stated. “However, we are going to rebuild collectively.”
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:22:00 -0400
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse has impacted journey alongside Interstate 695 in Baltimore, Maryland. The I-695 is a significant route out and in of the port metropolis.
How will the bridge collapse have an effect on site visitors?
Following the incident Tuesday morning of the cargo ship collision with the bridge, Maryland transportation officers introduced a site visitors alert to keep away from the I-695. Detours have been applied for the estimated 31,000 who journey the bridge day by day.
In keeping with Maryland.gov, different Harbor Crossings routes embrace the I-95 and I-895 tunnels. River crossings embrace the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel on I-95 and the Fort McHenry Tunnel on I-895.
Cruise strains are additionally looking for different routes. No cruise ships had been in port Tuesday morning, however the impression on the journey plans of the cruise strains that sail from Baltimore is unclear. Norwegian, Carnival and Royal Caribbean make the most of the Baltimore port.
How will the bridge collapse have an effect on deliveries?
Sure supply autos, together with these transporting hazardous supplies and enormous vehicles, are restricted from many detour routes. Tractor-trailers with clearance to make use of the tunnels will likely be inspected for hazardous supplies, which can trigger additional delays. In keeping with the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA), autos carrying hazardous supplies ought to use the western part of I-695.
Financial disruptions are anticipated for the encompassing space and the nation. The port is a significant route for automotive shipments, cargo, farm equipment, agricultural merchandise and extra.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 16:41:18 -0400
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The Nationwide Transportation Security Board (NTSB) head informed reporters on Tuesday that earlier than anybody can take into consideration cleansing up the particles from now collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, the main focus will likely be on the households and people impacted by the tragic and devastating occasion.
NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy gave reporters an replace throughout a press briefing, although she prefaced the briefing by saying she wouldn’t be answering questions on fatalities, deferring these inquiries to native companies.
As an alternative, she stated the NTSB will step again to permit the Coast Guard and others concerned in search and rescue efforts after the most important bridge was struck by a container ship and collapsed at about 1:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning.
Homendy stated a workforce of consultants will examine every part main as much as the crash, together with nautical operations, vessel operations, security historical past, the ships security report, proprietor operations, firm coverage, security administration, human efficiency, engineering, survival elements and extra.
She additionally stated the freeway security workforce and structural engineers will help with the investigation.
A household help workforce will likely be on website to assist households, buddies and family members, of these affected by the collapse.
“This can be a workforce effort,” Homendy stated, including there have been a variety of entities within the command publish.
So far as the variety of vehicles and staff on the bridge on the time of the collapse, Homendy stated that info must be verified.
She stated she doesn’t consider anybody is considering the following steps of cleansing up the bridge and getting the delivery route reopened. As an alternative, Homendy stated, this was about households.
“No person goes by a quantity,” she stated. “They’re simply trying and looking out.”
Homendy informed reporters she was not conscious of the bridge being flagged for security deficiencies prior to now, although the investigation will look into that. She additionally stated, although, that the investigation within the bridge’s historical past might take a minimum of two years and won’t be verified on the scene.
Nonetheless, Homendy stated there was not a variety of info to offer on the time of the presser, as she and her workforce solely simply acquired there.
“Actually, the main focus is on the households,” she stated.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:35:47 -0400
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The FBI stated on Tuesday that there is no such thing as a particular and credible info suggesting the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore in a single day was tied to terrorism.
“Our hearts exit to everybody impacted by this tragedy, particularly to the victims and their households,” he stated. “On behalf of the FBI, I want to say we’re with you and with the households concerned.”
The container ship Dali issued a mayday after shedding energy, earlier than colliding with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.
Authorities have stated a crew of eight development staff had been on the bridge on the time of the collapse.
Search and Rescue efforts are underway, as rescuer scramble to search out a number of individuals who stay lacking.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:36:51 -0400
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Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge was gone in a flash early Tuesday after a cargo ship collided with one in every of its pillars, snapping the construction into items and sending it tumbling into the water beneath.
As rescuers scramble to search out a number of individuals who stay lacking and because the particulars stay unclear, consultants weigh what might have probably brought on the disaster. One structural engineer – John Pistorino – says he is “shocked” the ship was capable of take down the construction in any respect.
“At this level, I am shocked {that a} container ship like that, which is so giant, would be capable to [take it down] even when it is off track,” he stated on “Fox & Mates” Tuesday.
“Again over in Tampa, we do have some means underwater now, so if the ship does get out of its personal course, it should divert it away from the crucial elements of the bridge. There’s underwater buildings that the ship would come throughout earlier than it really acquired to the bridge itself,” he continued, referencing the Sunshine Skyway Bridge that noticed an analogous catastrophe within the Tampa Bay space a long time in the past.
Persevering with on that word, Pistorino outlined the necessity for “redundancy” in bridge development.
Redundancy, in response to the American Institute of Metal Building, is “the standard of a bridge that allows it to carry out its design perform in a broken state” and is taken into account a “desired attribute of fine design.”
Pistorino stated the standard is one thing defective bridges have lacked prior to now.
“If we lose the crucial a part of one column, the construction itself tries to redistribute the load after which goes to the opposite column, which is outwardly then overloaded… That is the character of the buildings,” he defined.
“It may very well be a cash factor, however I believe, actually, that the design of the redundancy could be one thing that ought to at all times be thought of.”
Fox Information Digital’s Taylor Penley contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:11:47 -0400
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President Biden on Tuesday stated the federal authorities will step in to “rebuild” the Port of Baltimore after a cargo ship accident brought on the Francis Scott Key Bridge to break down.
In short remarks on the White Home, the president stated he pledged “all of the federal assets they want” to Gov. Wes Moore and different Maryland officers to recuperate from the catastrophe.
“Our prayers are with everybody concerned on this horrible accident and all of the households, particularly these ready for information of their liked one proper now. I do know each minute in that circumstance appears like a lifetime. I simply do not know. It is simply horrible,” Biden stated.
The president stated an ongoing search and rescue operation stays the federal government’s “prime precedence.” He famous that ship site visitors within the port has been suspended and can’t resume till bridge particles is cleared — an effort led by the Military Corps of Engineers.
Biden known as the Port of Baltimore “one of many nation’s largest delivery hubs,” noting that about 850,000 autos journey by means of the port yearly. “15,000 jobs rely on that port. We will do every part we are able to to guard these jobs and assist these staff,” Biden stated.
Requested if Synergy Marine Group, the corporate that manages the ship, known as the Dali, ought to be held accountable for the harm, Biden stated it “may very well be.”
“However we’re not going to attend for that to occur,” the president stated. “We will pay for it and get the bridge rebuilt and open.”
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:28:37 -0400
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Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl de Sousa warned of incalculable “collateral harm” from the Francis Scott Key Bridge catastrophe on “America’s Newsroom” on Tuesday.
The bridge collapsed after a cargo ship rammed into one in every of its assist piers. De Sousa famous that as many as 35,000 folks used the bridge every day, to not point out ships that cross underneath it to entry the port in Baltimore Harbor.
“It is simply going to trigger a lot collateral harm, , for the delivery trade,” de Sousa stated. “The harm is — you possibly can’t even calculate proper now.”
Maryland officers stated the bridge collapse will create a transportation nightmare for months, if not years, alongside the East Coast. Ship site visitors on the Port of Baltimore has been disrupted, to not point out cargo and commuter site visitors across the metropolis.
“Shedding this bridge will devastate the complete space, in addition to the complete East Coast,” state Sen. Johnny Ray Salling informed the Related Press.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:58:45 -0400
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The tragic collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge alongside I-695 in Maryland into the Baltimore harbor following a “ship strike” early Tuesday morning is anticipated to trigger main financial disruptions to the realm and throughout the nation.
The port, a significant route for delivery containers and cruise liners, is the deepest harbor in Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay, nearer to the Midwest than different East Coast ports, with 5 public and 12 non-public terminals, in response to the Maryland authorities web site.
The I-695 can also be a crucial hyperlink for trucking and motor autos linking Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York and the catastrophe comes forward of the upcoming Easter Weekend.
The port is the busiest within the U.S. for automotive shipments, dealing with greater than 750,000 autos in 2023, in response to knowledge from the Maryland Port Administration. It is usually the biggest U.S. port by quantity for dealing with farm and development equipment, in addition to agricultural merchandise.
It dealt with a report quantity of cargo final yr, making it the twentieth greatest port within the nation ranked by whole tons, in response to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Chloe Demrovsky, the manager in residence in international financial system at New York College, tells Fox Information Digital that the port has grown considerably over the past 25 years and the bridge collapse goes to have a devastating impression on the realm.
“Because the widening of deepening of the Panama Canal in 2016, it simply turned that rather more vital and able to docking a few of these actually giant container ships popping out of Asia that might now come by means of the Panama Canal and go to Baltimore,” Demrovsky stated.
“And from there they will join with the vital trucking routes to service not simply the entire nation, however particularly the very busy japanese hall. So it turned a very strategically vital space for transferring a variety of models.”
FOX Enterprise’ Michael Dorgan contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:50:21 -0400
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday, sending rescue staff right into a frenzy to search out anybody who could have fallen into the frigid waters of the Patapsco River.
The Baltimore Ravens launched an announcement, sending out their condolences to anybody who was affected by the stunning collapse.
“Our hearts exit to those that have been affected by the horrific Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse early this morning,” the workforce stated in an announcement posted to X.
“We’re grateful for the primary responders and native leaders who’re on scene to steer the search and rescue efforts and to assist these households who’ve been most immediately impacted.
“We all know that the Baltimore group will stand collectively within the aftermath of this tragic occasion.”
A livestream of the bridge appeared to indicate a cargo ship colliding with a assist beam, inflicting the bridge to interrupt aside and fall into the Patapsco River. Officers stated a number of folks had been lacking and a number of autos had been on the bridge on the time it fell.
The water beneath the bridge is about 50 toes deep, and the water temperature was about 47 levels through the pre-dawn collapse.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore informed reporters the crew on the ship despatched a mayday sign moments earlier than impression with the bridge. Moore stated the warning gave authorities sufficient time to cease extra site visitors from crossing the bridge, saving lives.
Fox Information Digital’s Ryan Gaydos contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:26:27 -0400
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge’s collapse was all however inevitable as soon as a cargo ship rammed into one of many bridge’s important helps, in response to one professional.
Stunning video exhibits the second the bridge seems to snap and collapse into the Patapsco River. Maryland officers have stated there was no structural points and that the bridge was totally as much as code.
“A part of the issue was this was a large tanker ship. It was not solely carrying a really heavy load, but it surely was additionally not simply vast, it was tall as properly. So it was virtually the peak of the bridge,” stated Dr. Ron Harichandran, dean of the Tagliatela Faculty of Engineering at College of New Haven.
Harichandran, a civil engineer, informed Fox Information Digital the cargo ship destroyed one of many concrete piers that supported the bridge, sealing its destiny.
“If it had circuitously hit that and if it had hit between the piers, the bridge could not have fully collapsed as a result of bridges are designed to have some redundancy. However for those who hit one in every of its important assist buildings, then it’s extremely tough for it to outlive,” he defined.
Trendy designs have a form of “bumper system” across the pier supposed to soak up a possible impression, in response to Harichandran.
“However once more, , these can face up to restricted quantities of impression, but it surely’s one thing so large by way of cargo vessel. Nothing may very well be designed to resist one thing as giant as that.”
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:12:18 -0400
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The crew of the cargo ship that struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore misplaced energy and issued a mayday within the moments earlier than the catastrophe, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stated.
The container ship Dali despatched the mayday in time for authorities to cease site visitors from coming into the bridge, limiting the variety of autos concerned in what officers have known as a “mass casualty occasion.”
“We’re grateful that between the mayday and the collapse that we had officers who had been capable of start to cease the circulation of site visitors so extra vehicles weren’t on the bridge,” Moore stated.
Authorities stated a crew of eight development staff had been on the bridge, along with any site visitors on the time of the collapse.
Search and rescue operations pulled two staff from the water, one in crucial situation who was hospitalized. Efforts to find the opposite six are ongoing.
Authorities stated that sonar had detected vehicles within the water, which is about 50 toes deep. The temperature was about 47 levels Fahrenheit earlier than daybreak on Tuesday, in response to a buoy that collects knowledge for the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Moore stated an investigation is ongoing to find out how many individuals had been caught within the collapse and plunged into the river.
“However the factor we do know is that most of the autos had been stopped earlier than they acquired onto the bridge, which saved lives in a really, very heroic approach.”
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:13:36 -0400
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., informed reporters he spoke to the Division of Transportation and that the Biden administration will commit emergency funding for the Francis Scott Key Bridge catastrophe.
Van Hollen stated Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated the division “will do every part they will to in a short time launch emergency funds for this vital challenge.”
“Our hearts exit to all those that are on the bridge and their family members. We pray for them. Our gratitude goes out to the primary responders who, as we converse, are persevering with to conduct search and rescue operations,” Van Hollen stated.
The Nationwide Freeway Transportation Administration administrator will journey to Baltimore to supervise launch of these funds, in response to the senator.
Moreover, the Nationwide Transportation Security Board will conduct an investigation into the bridge collapse.
In the meantime, the Military Corps of Engineers and its naval belongings will help with beneath the floor clearing of Baltimore Harbor, Van Hollen stated.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:28:15 -0400
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Prime Maryland officers supplied an replace on the investigation and rescue efforts after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Baltimore on Tuesday
Democratic Gov. Wes Moore, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and state regulation enforcement and transportation officers spoke to reporters concerning the standing of search and rescue efforts and the investigation after a cargo ship struck the bridge, inflicting it to plummet into Baltimore Harbor.
“Our response groups are doing every part in our energy to rescue and recuperate the victims of this collapse,” Moore stated.
“The preliminary investigation factors to an accident,” he stated.
Eight staff contracted with the Maryland Division of Transportation Secretary to repair potholes on the bridge had been working on the time of its collapse, in response to DOT Secretary Paul Wiedefeld. Two of them had been pulled from the water, one in crucial situation who has been hospitalized. The opposite just isn’t within the hospital.
Six staff stay unaccounted for and are being looked for, Wiedefeld stated.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:14:26 -0400
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Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in response to the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
The mayor’s declaration took impact at 9:00 a.m. ET and can unlock extra powers to reply to the disaster.
“Baltimore, I’m formally declaring a neighborhood state of emergency in response to the collapse of our Key Bridge,” Scott stated in an announcement. “Our groups are mobilizing assets and dealing swiftly to deal with this disaster and make sure the security and well-being of our group.”
Officers will quickly ship an replace on search and rescue efforts in Baltimore Harbor.
A container ship struck one of many bridge’s helps within the early morning on Tuesday, inflicting the bridge to snap and plunge into the Patapsco River. A number of autos and staff had been on the bridge on the time of its collapse.
The U.S. Coast Guard and several other regulation enforcement companies are collaborating in search and rescue operations. Two folks had been pulled from the water, one in crucial situation, officers stated.
Fireplace Chief James Wallace stated authorities “could also be in search of upwards of seven folks” however stated that quantity might change and different officers would not give figures. It was not clear if the 2 rescued had been included within the seven cited by the fireplace chief.
The Related Press contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 09:49:20 -0400
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Congress may very well be requested to approve emergency supplemental cash to cope with the Francis Scott Key Bridge catastrophe in Baltimore.
Let historical past be our information.
In 2007, the I-35W bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota in collapsed underneath its personal weight. The disaster killed 13 individuals and harm 145. President George W. Bush approved a catastrophe declaration. That enabled FEMA to start to cowl the hundreds of thousands of {dollars} in value incurred day by day coping with the aftermath of the bridge.
A couple of days later, the President authorization an emergency declaration for Minnesota. That allowed the state to recuperate prices from the federal authorities and start to take away particles from the scene. That is is form of what FEMA does within the aftermath of a twister or hurricane. So, based mostly on the earlier mannequin, anticipate FEMA to play a significant function on this.
The late Rep. Jim Oberstar (D-MN) was chairman of the Home Transportation on the Committee on the time. Though the bridge was not in Oberstar’s district, he was capable of muscle by means of an emergency appropriation of $250 million to the state division of transportation to start rebuilding the bridge.
The brand new I-35W bridge opened slightly greater than a yr after the collapse.
Contemplating the quantity of commerce which funnels by means of the Port of Baltimore – to say nothing of site visitors and commerce which strikes throughout the Francis Scott Key Bridge as a significant east coast artery – it’s attainable Congress may very well be known as upon to offer funding to rebuild the bridge in report time.
Fox has spoken with Congressional leaders and aides about the potential of Congressional motion. Granted, it is extremely early within the aftermath. Lawmakers are considering what they could must do. However Fox is informed the mannequin may very well be how Congress responded to the I-35W bridge catastrophe 17 years in the past
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:30:00 -0400
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Maryland state Senator Johnny Salling stated the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse is a “devastating” blow to Baltimore County.
Salling, a Republican whose district comprises the bridge, informed “Fox & Mates” the port of Baltimore depends upon transportation that has been disrupted since by the collapse.
“We’ve got truck, rail, barge and ship that are available right here, continually. And now the Patapsco River, as you see, is an asset to us and shedding this bridge goes to be devastating to, not simply the port, however the Delmarva space,” Salling stated.
Salling stated this “catastrophic occasion” will “change the entire space of Baltimore.”
He known as on federal, state and native authorities to associate collectively to revive entry to the port and forestall an analogous incident sooner or later.
“It breaks my coronary heart. I take into consideration all these which are affected and that will likely be affected by this. You consider the autos that had been going throughout there, the employees that had been engaged on there. The those who rely on it, and you concentrate on the households. My coronary heart and my prayers exit to those households,” Salling stated.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:20:11 -0400
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The large container ship that smashed into a high traffic bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, this morning has beforehand collided with infrastructure whereas docking, in response to studies.
Container ship Dali collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning, collapsing a portion of the bridge and leading to what authorities suspect is a mass casualty occasion.
In keeping with earlier studies, this isn’t the primary time Dali has struck metropolis infrastructure whereas transporting items — an analogous however far much less severe incident was reported in 2016, in response to contemporaneous studies.
Dali collided with a stone wall at a dock in Antwerp, Belgium, within the afternoon of July 11, 2016, in response to a Maritime Information report.
The container ship suffered harm and was docked for repairs, however nobody was injured within the collision, in response to The New York Occasions.
The Tuesday incident was much more lethal, in response to officers coordinating catastrophe response.
Fox Enterprise’ Timothy Nerozzi contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:53:42 -0400
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse brought on main site visitors disruptions and compelled detours into and out of Baltimore Tuesday morning.
The bridge carried site visitors alongside I-695 throughout the Patapsco River and outer Baltimore Harbor and at 1.6 miles was the second longest bridge within the Baltimore metropolitan space, after the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
The Maryland Transportation Authority stated alternate routes to cross the harbor will likely be I-95 or I-895 tunnels. Automobiles transporting hazardous supplies, like giant portions of propane, are prohibited in tunnels and will use the western part of I-695, the authority stated.
Residents had been instructed to keep away from the complete I-695 southeast hall as rescue operations are underway on the bridge.
Maryland Transportation Secretary Paul Wiedefeld stated all vessel site visitors into and out of the port could be suspended till additional discover, although the power was nonetheless open to vehicles.
Gov. Wes Moore declared a state of emergency and stated he was working to get federal assets deployed. The FBI was on the scene, however Wiedefeld stated terrorism was not suspected. President Biden was briefed.
The Related Press contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:36:41 -0400
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) stated his state “stands prepared to help and assist our neighbor Maryland” after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday morning.
“Our prayers are with the households affected and the brave rescue efforts underway following the tragic incident at Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge,” Youngkin posted on X.
The bridge alongside I-695 collapsed into the Baltimore harbor early Tuesday morning after a “ship strike,” Maryland officers stated. The cargo ship that hit the bridge seems to be the Dali, a Singapore-flagged container ship.
The ship is managed by the Synergy Group, a Singapore-based firm.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stated he has declared a State of Emergency and has been involved with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott, the Baltimore Fireplace Division and different officers following the tragedy.
“I’ve declared a State of Emergency right here in Maryland and we’re working with an interagency workforce to rapidly deploy federal assets from the Biden Administration,” Moore stated.
He added, “We’re grateful for the courageous women and men who’re finishing up efforts to rescue these concerned and pray for everybody’s security.”
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:31:14 -0400
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Former Navy SEAL rescue diver Jake Zweig joined “Fox & Mates” Tuesday morning to debate the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse as search and rescue operations are underway in Baltimore, Maryland.
Two folks had been rescued from the water, one in crucial situation, in response to officers. Zweig stated the large query dealing with U.S. Coast Guard personnel and different first responders is whether or not anybody might survive for a number of hours after their vehicles plummeted into Baltimore Harbor.
“I’ll be trustworthy with you, there’s not a variety of hope in my thoughts at this level. It is a restoration operation,” Zweig stated.
Baltimore Fireplace Chief James Wallace stated authorities “could also be in search of upwards of seven folks” however stated that quantity might change and different officers would not give figures. It was not clear if the 2 rescued had been included within the seven cited by the fireplace chief.
Authorities stated a crew of unknown dimension was engaged on the bridge on the time of the collapse and that sonar had detected vehicles within the water, which is about 50 toes deep. The water temperature was about 47 levels Fahrenheit earlier than daybreak Tuesday, in response to a buoy that collects knowledge for the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
The Related Press contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:05:42 -0400
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Candidates working for U.S. Senate in Maryland gave statements of assist to first responders working on the scene of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore on Tuesday.
“We’re heartbroken by the tragedy on the Francis Scott Key Bridge,” former Republican Gov. Larry Hogan posted on X. “Yumi and I are praying for these lacking and their family members, and ask all Marylanders to maintain them in your ideas.”
“We’re extremely grateful for the primary responders and rescue groups working to avoid wasting lives,” added Hogan.
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Rep. David Trone, D-Md., one of many two main Democrats working for his or her occasion’s Senate nomination within the Might 14 main, additionally issued an announcement calling it a “devastating tragedy.”
“Our hearts exit to those that had been on the bridge on the time of collapse and their households,” Trone stated. “We’re grateful to the unimaginable emergency responders who’re preventing valiantly to rescue survivors.”
“Baltimore is a metropolis identified for its resilience, and we should all now rally round Baltimore as the town begins to heal, rebuild and transfer ahead,” Trone continued.
“I’m grateful for Governor Moore’s management and can work intently with my colleagues in Congress and throughout Maryland to indicate up for Baltimore and our state in any approach attainable.”
Fox Information Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:14:57 -0400
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State contractors working for the Maryland Division of Transportation had been on the Francis Scott Key Bridge on the time of its collapse, Maryland officers stated Tuesday.
“We all know there have been people on the bridge on the time of the collapse engaged on the bridge, contractors for us,” stated Paul Wiedefeld, secretary for the Maryland Division of Transportation. The employees had been doing concrete duct restore, he stated.
The bridge collapsed into Baltimore Harbor early Tuesday morning after a cargo ship struck one in every of its assist beams. Rescue and restoration operations are underway, with officers looking for “upwards of seven folks,” in response to Baltimore Fireplace Chief James Wallace.
Two folks have been pulled out of the water, one in crucial situation, Wallace stated earlier.
The U.S. Coast Guard is on the scene conducting rescue operations with a number of regulation enforcement companies.
“The Coast Guard’s main mission proper now’s search and rescue, in search of any survivors within the water,” stated Lt. Commander Erin Palmer.
Palmer stated the Coast Guard has three small boats and an 87-foot patrol boat, Mako, on the scene. There may be additionally a helicopter from air station Atlantic Metropolis helping federal, state and native companions on scene with search and rescue operations, Palmer stated.
A facility with psychological well being professionals has been arrange for relations, Wiedefeld stated.
Wed, 27 Mar 2024 12:22:13 -0400
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FBI Baltimore personnel are on the scene and helping with first responders on the website of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, the Federal Bureau of Investigation stated Tuesday.
The FBI investigated if there was any terrorism connection to the catastrophe, which there’s not, Maryland Secretary of Transportation Paul Wiedefeld informed reporters at a press convention.
A number of regulation enforcement companies are concerned in rescue operations for what officers have known as a “mass casualty occasion” after a cargo ship struck a assist beam underneath the bridge, inflicting it to break down. There have been a number of autos on the bridge.
“By no means would you suppose that you’d see, bodily see, the Key Bridge tumble down like that. It appeared like one thing out of an motion film,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott stated, calling it an “unthinkable tragedy.”
Baltimore Fireplace Chief James Wallace informed reporters that two folks had been pulled from the bridge, one in severe situation. He stated authorities “could also be in search of upwards of seven folks,” however that quantity might change.
Sonar has indicated that there are autos within the water, the place the temperature was about 47 levels Fahrenheit within the early hours of Tuesday, in response to a buoy that collects knowledge for the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Earlier, Kevin Cartwright, director of communications for the Baltimore Fireplace Division, informed The Related Press that a number of autos had been on the bridge on the time, together with one the scale of a tractor-trailer truck.
The Related Press contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:17:33 -0400
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The White Home is intently monitoring the collision of a delivery vessel with the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore that brought on the bridge to break down, an official informed Fox Information Digital.
The White Home official stated there is no such thing as a indication of any nefarious menace concerned within the catastrophe.
“Our hearts exit to the households of those that stay lacking on account of this horrific incident,” the official stated.
The U.S. Coast Guard is helping with search and rescue operations for individuals who stay unaccounted for within the catastrophe, in response to the White Home.
Senior White Home officers are in contact with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott to supply any federal help they could want, the official stated.
First responders have pulled two folks out of the water thus far, one in crucial situation. Officers have described the collapse as a “mass casualty occasion” and rescue operations are persevering with.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland is situated about 50 miles north east of Washington, D.C., alongside I-695.
Fox Information Digital’s Danielle Wallace contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:17:58 -0400
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First responders had been capable of pull two folks from the water after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed in Maryland Tuesday morning.
Baltimore Fireplace Chief James Wallace informed reporters one was in severe situation and the opposite was not significantly injured.
Wallace stated authorities “could also be in search of upwards of seven folks” however he stated that quantity might change.
The bridge collapsed after a cargo ship appeared to crash into one of many helps, in response to a video posted on X, previously referred to as Twitter. The ship caught fireplace, and thick, black smoke billowed out of it.
Kevin Cartwright, director of communications for the Baltimore Fireplace Division, described the catastrophe as a “dire emergency.” He informed the Related Press it was too early to say how many individuals had been affected however known as the collapse a “creating mass casualty occasion.”
Wallace stated there are a number of air belongings, the Baltimore Police Division, and a number of marine belongings responding to the scene to conduct rescue operations.
“We’re nonetheless very a lot in lively search and rescue at this level,” Wallace stated.
The Related Press contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 06:32:39 -0400
The water temperature was within the low 40s Tuesday morning when the Francis Scott Key Bridge alongside I-695 in Maryland collapsed into the Baltimore Harbor after a cargo ship struck it.
Rescue efforts stay underway for a minimum of 20 folks believed to be within the water, the Baltimore Fireplace Division informed the Related Press at round 3:00 a.m. ET. Officers have described the bridge collapse as a mass casualty occasion. There isn’t a official demise toll identified right now.
An individual uncovered to chilly water temperatures for a protracted time period dangers affected by hypothermia. When the water temperature is between 40-50 levels, exhaustion or unconsciousness can occur inside 30-60 minutes. The anticipated survival time for somebody uncovered to these situations is between one to a few hours.
“Our focus proper now’s attempting to rescue and recuperate these folks,” Kevin Cartwright, director of communications for the Baltimore Fireplace Division, informed The Related Press.
Fox Information’ Janice Dean and the Related Press contributed to this replace.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 05:55:07 -0400
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Maryland Gov. Wes Moore stated he has declared a State of Emergency and has been involved with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott, the Baltimore Fireplace Division and different officers after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed within the state when a ship collided into it Tuesday morning.
“My workplace is in shut communication with U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott, Baltimore County Government Johnny Olszewski, and the Baltimore Fireplace Division as emergency personnel are on the scene following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge,” Moore stated in an announcement.
“I’ve declared a State of Emergency right here in Maryland and we’re working with an interagency workforce to rapidly deploy federal assets from the Biden Administration,” he continued.
Moore added, “We’re grateful for the courageous women and men who’re finishing up efforts to rescue these concerned and pray for everybody’s security.”
“We are going to stay in shut contact with federal, state, and native entities which are finishing up rescue efforts as we proceed to evaluate and reply to this tragedy,” he stated.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 05:45:23 -0400
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The ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Maryland, inflicting a collapse, seems to be the Dali, a Singapore-flagged container ship.
The ship is managed by the Synergy Group, a Singapore-based firm.
Fox Information’ Liz Friden contributed to this report.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 05:36:21 -0400
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated he’s providing assist from the division after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed Tuesday morning because of a ship colliding with it.
Buttigieg stated he spoke with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott concerning the incident.
“I’ve spoken with Gov. Moore and Mayor Scott to supply USDOT’s assist following the vessel strike and collapse of the Francis Scott Key bridge,” he wrote on X. “Rescue efforts stay underway and drivers within the Baltimore space ought to comply with native responder steerage on detours and response.”
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 05:31:06 -0400
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The Maryland Transportation Authority stated on social media that every one lanes have been closed in each instructions and that site visitors is being detoured after the Key Bridge collapsed because of a “ship strike.”
MDTA stated to keep away from the I-695 southeast hall and to as a substitute Use I-95 or I-895.
It additionally stated alternate routes for Harbor Crossings will likely be on I-95 or I-895 tunnels. Automobiles transporting hazardous supplies, together with propane of greater than 10 kilos, are prohibited in tunnels and will use the western part of I-695 round tunnels.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 05:20:12 -0400
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Baltimore mayor Brandon M. Scott stated Tuesday morning he was headed to the Francis Scott Key Bridge alongside I-695 in Maryland after it collapsed into the Baltimore harbor.
The mayor stated he has been involved with Gov. Wes Moore and officers with the fireplace division and different companies.
Officers have described this as a mass casualty occasion after a ship collided with the bridge.
Tue, 26 Mar 2024 20:15:36 -0400
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The Francis Scott Key Bridge alongside I-695 in Maryland collapsed into the Baltimore harbor early Tuesday morning following a “ship strike,” Maryland transportation officers stated.
A livestream of the bridge appeared to indicate a cargo ship colliding with a assist beam, inflicting the bridge to interrupt and fall into the Patapsco River. A number of autos had been on the bridge on the time.
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Emergency crews had been looking for a minimum of seven folks believed to be within the water, Kevin Cartwright, director of communications for the Baltimore Fireplace Division, informed The Related Press round 3 a.m. Officers have described this as a mass casualty occasion. There have been no particular variety of deceased.