‘The whole bridge just collapsed’: audio of Baltimore dispatch call released

I need one of you guys on the South Side one of you guys on the North side hold all traffic on the Key Bridge uh there’s a ship approaching it just lost their steering so until you get that under control we got to stop all traffic okay we all on to the South

Side uh I’m holding traffic now I was dragging but we stopped prior to the bridge so I’ll have all traffic stopped is there a crew working on the bridge right now yeah good stop traffic on this site right now yeah if we can stop traffic just

Make sure no one’s on the bridge right now I’m not sure where uh there’s a crew up there might want to notify whoever the for is see if we can get them off the bridge temporarily 10 for once the other unit gets here I’ll ride up on all traffic stop at this

Time once you get here I’ll go grab the uh workers on the Key Bridge and then stop the outer the whole Bridge just fell down start start whoever everybody the whole Bridge just collapsed simple dispatch is Direct that’s correct there time do we know fall traffic or St I

Can’t get to the other side sir the bridge is down we’re going to have to get somebody on the other side an County MSP to get up here and stop traffic coming Northbound on the T Bridge C13 I’m holding all traffic northbound

Emergency responders can be heard asking whether construction workers were on Francis Scott Key Bridge as police tried to halt traffic moments before the structure collapsed. ‘The whole bridge just fell down,’ a dispatcher is heard saying seconds later.
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State officials said six construction workers who had been missing since the container ship Dali crashed into the bridge on Tuesday morning were now presumed dead.

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25 comments

  5. Main cause lack of common sence for the Master Duty officer and to the Pilots ….

    they were en route down stream and when ship suddenly goes to NUC ( Not Under Commarnd )

    and if you dont have much distance to move the ship away from the passage or to try and drop anchor to reduce the drift THEY SHOULD HAVE GONE ON THE PASSAGE with the help of rudder movement and managing the bow with BOW THRUSTER….
    the only thing can happen is until the momentum stops she will drift down stream then not a big issue to get some help from tugs and move out of the passage and clear it for the rest of the ships….

    NUC happens mostly when main engine fails or stearing fail… main engine fail nothing can do until it get rectified and start but if stearing fail there are other methods to manage stearing including manually…

    if power fail on a ship like this there at least three main generators if one goes off there is always the next

    in stand-by mode to get started or start even manually…
    if those gens goes off still there is the emergency generator which give power to the ships vitals….

  6. The Baltimore bridge destruction is at least the 2nd attempt by Obama, Bill Gates and the WEF leaders to poison mass numbers of people.
    The Turkish Mavi Gazetime reporter (Kaan Sariaydin) told us that the Evergreen situation in March 2022 and the canal was the first attempt.
    Regards

  9. Rip to all the Victims. It must be khkhkhamass who did it..keep sending aid to warmongers and neglect your infrastructure..great foreign and interior policy

  10. Few emergency tugs should be in such critical locations of passage. Please accept condolences from Russia.

  12. These cops are slow, were they high on drugs? A massive disaster is about to happen and they sound like it’s a routine traffic stop.

  14. Okay not in a offensive way but…
    First we get the south tower in NYC hit by a plane, now we got the south pillar got hit by a ship

  19. People's commute to work just went from a 15 min drive, to a 1.5 hour around the bay commute…………………………………………….

  20. Any chance they could slightly rewrite the lyrics to Francis Scott Key's "The Star Spangled Banner", to commemorate the momentous collapse of the bridge that bore his name? How about "The Barged Mangled Spanner"?

  22. Watch the sections of the bridge that collapsed. Don’t watch the ship. That’s what they want us to watch, watch the sections there are explosions.! They brought the bridge down in sections with explosions. I thought the same watch the boat watch the boat, but no, no no watch for the explosions on the sections.

  24. Moving forward, bridge workers should have radios that allow police to communicate in certain situations. Maybe a bridge evacuation siren, too?

  25. I’m very happy that the officers were able to stop the traffic, but I feel like these men on the bridge could have been saved simply by involving a 3rd person to either stop the traffic or go and at least try to get those men.

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