Wife sends sad message after husband was thought to be dead in bridge collapse
Recovery work started up again in Maryland on Wednesday (March 27), and people are still looking for the six people who are thought to be dead after the tragic collapse of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge.
Early Tuesday morning, a ship that was 985 feet long hit the bridge, sending pieces of it falling into the Patapsco River. A report from CNN says that six construction workers from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador are among the missing.
On the other hand, the US Coast Guard has said that it thinks the men have died and will stop its huge search and rescue operation.
Miguel Luna, a 49-year-old husband and father of three from El Salvador who had lived in Maryland for almost twenty years, was one of the people who were identified. The BBC reported that Luna was working with a group of people whose job it was to fix holes in the bridge when it collapsed.
María del Carmen Castellón, Miguel Luna’s wife, spoke about how devastated she was as the family waited for news while still trying to get better.
“All they say is that we need to wait and that they can’t give us any information right now.” Our hearts are broken because we don’t know if they’ve saved them yet, so we’re devastated. In an interview with Telemundo 44, Maria said, “We’re just waiting to hear any news.”
Another victim, 38-year-old Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval, was also found among the missing workers. Maynor was married and had a son who was 18 years old and a daughter who was 5 years old. He was from Honduras. His brother Martin Suazo said that he had lived in the US for about eighteen years.
The six workers, including Maynor, were fixing potholes on the bridge early Tuesday morning when it suddenly collapsed. They worked for a local company called Brawner Builders, which does maintenance work on bridges in Maryland.
Jeffrey Pritzker, a senior executive at Brawner Builders, was shocked by how unexpected the event was and emphasized the company’s dedication to safety.
“This was so completely unexpected,” Jeffrey said. “We have nothing else to say. We’re very concerned about safety, which is why we have cones, signs, lights, barriers, and flaggers. We didn’t think the bridge would fall, though.
