The Most modern: Caller reported cracks in bridge sooner than collapse

MIAMI (AP) — The Most modern on the deadly collapse of a pedestrian bridge at Florida World University (all conditions local):

9:10 p.m.

Florida’s Division of Transportation says an engineer left a voicemail two days sooner than a catastrophic bridge failure to boom some cracking had been stumbled on at one among the concrete span.

Nonetheless, the company says the voicemail left on a landline wasn’t heard by a speak DOT worker till Friday for the reason that worker became once out of the speak of enterprise on an project.

In a transcript of the voicemail released Friday evening, Denney Pate with FIGG Bridge Community says the cracking would need repairs « nonetheless from a security perspective we don’t see that there may perchance be any instruct there so we’re no longer taking into consideration it from that perspective.

The pedestrian bridge at Florida World college collapsed Thursday, killing no longer decrease than six of us. Authorities are slowly removing the particles, hunting for more victims.

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6 p.m.

A construction firm appealing about this week’s deadly bridge collapse in Florida became once accused beforehand by a subcontractor of failing to neatly manufacture a bridge construction machine after an accident in Virginia.

The allegations had been made in a lawsuit that became once later settled. A confidentiality settlement bars the release of small print.

The lawsuit stemmed from FIGG Bridge Community’s constructing of the Southern Norfolk Jordan Bridge in 2012. One day of construction in Chesapeake, a Ninety-ton section fell onto railroad tracks below.

The railroad sued. FIGG and a subcontractor, Lane Constructing Corporation, argued over accountability.

Lane claimed FIGG did no longer neatly manufacture the bridge’s construction machine. FIGG claimed Lane became once responsible of inserting within the section.

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Eleven:20 a.m.

The firm that designed a pedestrian bridge that collapsed in Florida is the identical firm that designed the unique Interstate 35W bridge in Minnesota, after the dilapidated span collapsed more than 10 years ago.

The engineering firm is FIGG Bridge Community. Its unique pedestrian bridge in Miami became once hailed as a technological innovation sooner than it collapsed Thursday, killing no longer decrease than six of us.

FIGG said in an announcement that or no longer it’s shy by the collapse. The cause is below investigation, nonetheless authorities said Friday that cables had been being tightened when it collapsed.

In 2007, the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, killing 13 of us and injuring 100 45. After that tragedy, FIGG became once selected to fabricate the replacement bridge that is right this moment in utilize.

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10:30 a.m.

Authorities say there shall be more fatalities previous the six deaths already confirmed within the collapse of a pedestrian bridge at Florida World University in Miami.

Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez suggested journalists Friday he expects extra victims to be stumbled on as the enormous concrete structure is removed. Perez also said the main precedence is attending to the victims in beaten vehicles below the rubble as hasty as imaginable.

Authorities also said one sufferer is confirmed to be an FIU pupil. No identities of these killed have been released.

The National Transportation Security Board is at the speak to compare what precipitated the bridge to fracture down Thursday afternoon.

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8:45 a.m.

Authorities say an innovative pedestrian bridge that failed at Florida World University had been set up apart to a « stress test » and its cables had been being tightened when it collapsed. Six of us had been killed and 10 injured when the 950-ton span pancaked onto a six-lane boulevard.

The National Transportation Security Board is investigating the cause.

One factor may perchance perchance perchance have been the stress test that Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez said crews conducted earlier Thursday.

Sen. Marco Rubio, within the meantime, tweeted that cables that hunch the bridge had loosened, and « had been being tightened when it collapsed. »

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5:50 a.m.

Miami-Dade Police say the death toll is up to 6 of us within the collapse of a pedestrian bridge to Florida World University. Det. Alvaro Alvaro Zabaleta says the operation has turned from rescue to recovery.

He says they can’t yet release any info about the victims. He says 10 of us had been first of all set up hospitalized.

The bridge became once no longer opened yet when it collapsed on vehicles ready in site site visitors.

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2 a.m.

As Florida authorities work to name the these who died in Thursday’s catastrophic bridge collapse, speak and federal investigators will originate up the duty of realizing how and why the five-day-dilapidated span failed.

Miami-Dade County Fireside Chief Dave Downey said Thursday evening that his crew is the utilization of high-tech listening devices, professional sniffing canines and search cameras in a bustle to search out anybody easy alive within the rubble. The $14.2 million pedestrian bridge became once alleged to begin in 2019 as a apt methodology for college students to substandard the busy boulevard. It linked the community of Sweetwater with the campus of Florida World University.

Aerial footage at the speak showed a professional canines running atop fallen concrete and sniffing within the crevices for any victims. Miami-Dade Police Director Juan Perez acknowledged the likelihood of discovering more victims below the rubble is slim.

Four of us had been stumbled on useless and no longer decrease than nine others had been injured and taken to local hospitals; officials at one point said 10 had been injured.