Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval.Photo:Maynor Suazo/Facebook
Maynor Suazo/Facebook
Divers have recovered a third body following thedeadly Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
Apress releasefrom the Key Bridge Response Team issued Friday, April 5, said that the body of Maynor Yasir Suazo-Sandoval was found around 10:30 a.m. local time. He was 38.
Divers discovered “what they believed to be the missing construction worker and notified the Maryland Department State of Police,” officials continued in the release. The state police’s Underwater Recovery Team then deployed multiple dive teams who found Suazo-Sandoval.
Officials later told his family.
“The collapse of the Key Bridge is undoubtedly one of the most challenging tragedies we have faced as a law enforcement agency. Along with our local, state and federal public safety partners, we will not give up,” Colonel Roland L. Butler, Jr., Superintendent of the Maryland Department of State Police, said.
He added, “There are families still waiting to hear if we have found their loved one. I can promise you, we are fully committed to finding closure for each of these families.”
Suazo was an employeeof Brawner Builders, which was doing maintenance work on the structure before a container ship collided with it at 1:30 a.m. local time, his loved ones told Noticias Telemundo, perNBC News.
“He fought day after day for our family to get ahead. He looked for a way to make a living,” his sister Norma Suazo told the Spanish-language outlet, as his other brother Fredy Suazo described the victim as someone who was “smiley, the type of person that always fought for the well-being of the family.”
The victims also include Miguel Luna, a father of three from El Salvador who was a Maryland resident for about 20 years, according to nonprofit organizationCASA.
According to theAssociated Press, officials said they need to clear away the mangled debris so the bodies of the other missing workers can be found.
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said at apress conferenceafter the collapse that the freighter lost power before the crash, prompting crew members to issue a “mayday” call.
Thatadvance warningallowed officials to “stop the flow of traffic so that more cars were not on the bridge” at the time of thecrash and collapse, Moore said.
View of the Baltimore Bridge collapse.Chip Somodevilla/Getty
Chip Somodevilla/Getty
TheDalicontained nearly 4,700 metal shipping containers, 56 of which had hazardous materials inside, according to the AP. Thirteen of those were destroyed, but the evaluated contents were perfumes and soaps, the Key Bridge Joint Information Center said.
Engineers and the builders of the bridge looked over the bridge’s design on Thursday to determine how much each piece weighs to predict how the metal will react to being cut up and hauled out, perUSA Today.
“We can’t leave any concrete, any pieces of containers, any reinforcing bar," Commander and Chief of Engineers for the Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon told the outlet. “It’s got to be a complete clean bottom for safe transit of vessels.”
Signs in front of bridge collapse.Scott Olson/Getty
Scott Olson/Getty
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“Our hearts are with the families,” Moore said at a news conference before the Orioles' home opener, perCNN. “And to all the families, we are so sorry for this tragedy.”
source: people.com
