{"id":49939,"date":"2024-03-27T14:54:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T04:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=49939"},"modified":"2024-03-27T14:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-27T04:54:46","slug":"six-presumed-dead-after-ship-destroys-major-us-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=49939","title":{"rendered":"Six presumed dead after ship destroys major US bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authorities on Tuesday suspended their search for six people missing after a packed cargo ship slammed into a Baltimore bridge, causing it to collapse and blocking one of the busiest US commercial harbors.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the length of time that we&#8217;ve gone in this search, the extensive search efforts that we put into it, the water temperature&#8230; at this point we do not believe that we&#8217;re going to find any of these individuals still alive,&#8221; US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath told a press conference as night fell.<\/p>\n<p> All six people were members of a nighttime construction crew who were repairing potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when disaster struck not long after midnight.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going away from the search and rescue portion to a recovery operation,&#8221; said Roland Butler, Maryland&#8217;s secretary of state police.<\/p>\n<p>He said the temperatures and currents were making it difficult for divers to continue working underwater, but that boats would continue patrolling overnight.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage showed the packed container ship slamming into one of the bridge&#8217;s supports, causing the 1977-built steel structure to then collapse like a deck of cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities on Tuesday suspended their search for six people missing after a packed cargo ship slammed into a Baltimore bridge, causing it to collapse and blocking one of the busiest US commercial harbors. &#8220;Based on the length of time that we&#8217;ve gone in this search, the extensive search efforts that we put into it, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[935],"class_list":["post-49939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-six-presumed-dead-after-ship-destroys-major-us-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}