Salvage crews are set to lift the first piece of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge from the water to allow barges and tugboats to access the disaster site, the first step in a complex effort to reopen the city’s blocked port.
The steel truss bridge collapsed early on Tuesday morning, killing six road workers, when a massive container ship lost power and crashed into a support pylon, sending much of the span crashing into the Patapsco River, blocking the Port of Baltimore’s shipping channel.
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