JamesWNealMar 27, 2024
Some insight into what happened in the minutes before the Key Bridge collapsed. https://x.com/cfishman/status/1772966665531084836?s=20
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Again, a moment to pause & appreciate the cool professionalism of those in & around the Key Bridge at 1:24 am Tuesday. Ship’s pilot radios in that ship has lost steerage & will hit bridge. Someone (maritime control?) transmits urgent alert to Maryland/Balt police dispatch… —>

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Show threadAntonio J. Delgado❤️🧡💛💚💙💜Mar 28, 2024
@JamesWNeal isn't it that the workers on the bridge were also migrants? Not just any person taking care of the infra of their own city, but people that went miles away north for a better life at the price of their own life
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Sure, of course somebody's going to delve into their backgrounds, citizenship, etc., because that's what *some* Americans do - but meanwhile these are the people who we rely on to fill our potholes and in this case some of them died on the job. (AP) The victims, who were part of a construction crew fixing potholes on the bridge, were from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, Butler said. https://apnews.com/article/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-03-27-2024-6a95340e5daeff6551fc999d23feb278

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