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WLJ:
Container ship struck the Francis-Scott Key bridge causing it to fall.
They're calling it a 'developing mass casualty event'



--- Quote ---The Francis Scott Key Bridge along I-695 in Maryland collapsed into the Baltimore harbor following a "ship strike" early Tuesday morning.

A livestream of the bridge appeared to show a cargo ship colliding with a support beam, causing the bridge to break apart and fall into the Patapsco River. Multiple vehicles were on the bridge at the time, but noupdate on casualties has been offered.

Emergency crews including the U.S. Coast Guard, local first responders and the FBI were searching for at least 20 people believed to be in the water, Kevin Cartwright, director of communications for the Baltimore Fire Department, told The Associated Press around 3 a.m. Officials have described this as a mass casualty event.
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Maryland: Ship hits Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse
https://www.foxnews.com/us/maryland-ship-hits-francis-scott-key-bridge-causing-collapse


Video of the collapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVdVpd-pqcM

WLJ:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/live/article-13239379/francis-scott-key-bridge-baltimore-collapse-maryland-live.html

K Frame:
The videos I've seen of the various harbor cameras are... spectacular? Frightening? Horrific? Not quite sure how to describe them.

As I was coming into work the local news radio program was saying that two people have been rescued from the water (one unharmed, one critical) and they believe that there are at least 7 others in the water.

K Frame:
Here's the breaking news from the local news channel that serves this region.

https://wtop.com/baltimore/2024/03/key-bridge-in-baltimore-collapses-after-hitting-large-boat/

dogmush:
Huh.  I'll be interested in the accident breakdown on this one.

Boat had pilots on board, clear night with good visability, the video shows not much wind when they hit, they were just way the *expletive deleted*ck out to starboard.  In the video of the collapse you can see the exhaust plume where they pegged the engines (full astern, I assume) but too late.  gotta wonder WTF was happening on that bridge.

Prayers out to the folks that were on that bridge and got dropped in the harbor.

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