3-26-2024 9:44pm

HUNT VALLEY FIRM'S 6

photo: NBC News

The Coast Guard has stopped the search and rescue for 6 workers. A witness stated that the workers saw the collapse in progress and warned motorists driving onto the bridge, possibly saving lives. The search will resume on Wednesday.

A Hunt Valley construction company says one of its workers survived bridge collapse

One construction worker survived the devastating Tuesday morning collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore.

Six other workers are presumed dead, Jeffrey Pritzker, the executive vice president of Brawner Builders, the workers' employer, confirmed to Business Insider.

Pritzker did not disclose the names of the workers, who had fallen into the freezing waters of the 50-foot-deep Patapsco River after a cargo ship crashed into the bridge in Baltimore's port.

Rescue crews have yet to recover the bodies of the presumed dead workers. The amount of time that has passed and the water's depth led rescue teams to believe that they were no longer alive, Pritzker told the Associated Press.

By: CLAUDIA LAUER, AP

Radio traffic obtained from the Broadcastify.com archive indicates officers were just about to alert a construction crew when a major bridge in Baltimore collapsed after being hit by a container ship that had lost power.

The Maryland Transportation Authority first responder radio traffic includes a dispatcher putting out a call saying a ship had lost its steering ability and asking officers to stop all traffic. It took officers less than two minutes to stop traffic on the bridge.

One officer who had stopped traffic radioed that he was going to drive onto the bridge to notify the construction crew once a second officer arrived. But seconds later, a frantic officer radioed that the bridge had collapsed.

The six people still unaccounted for were part of the construction crew, which was filling potholes on the bridge.