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brooklynite

(94,571 posts) Tue Mar 26, 2024, 08:33 PM Mar 26

Rescue operation ends with six presumed dead (Baltimore)

Source: Washington Post

ll six missing victims in the Baltimore bridge collapse are presumed dead, the U.S. Coast Guard said, and the agency has ended rescue efforts.

“At this point, we do not believe that we’re going to find any of these individuals still alive,” U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Shannon Gilreath said a news conference Tuesday evening.

Search and recovery efforts for the people’s remains will resume at 6 a.m. Wednesday.

“The changing conditions out there have made it dangerous for the first responders, the divers in the water,” Maryland State Police Col. Roland L. Butler Jr. said. In the morning, “we’re hoping to put divers in the water and begin a more detailed search to do our very best to recover those six missing people.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/03/26/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-maryland/#link-OJJDYRCZJ5H3FNOF3FAGF6AKFY

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Rescue operation ends with six presumed dead (Baltimore) (Original Post) brooklynite Mar 26 OP

Awful but something like that could have been so much worse. All Mixed Up Mar 26 #1

. Think. Again. Mar 26 #2

R.I.P. Marthe48 Mar 26 #3

"At this point, we do not believe that we're going to find any of these individuals still alive," AZLD4Candidate Mar 26 #4

How would you say it? What's wrong with the facts as given? Hermit-The-Prog Mar 27 #5

Maybe with a little bit of empathy and compassion. I know. I'm passe. AZLD4Candidate Mar 27 #6

If I were waiting for word, I would not want a damned sermon, just the status. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 27 #7

these were people's family. calling them "individuals" removes all humanity from them. AZLD4Candidate Mar 27 #8

I've never seen individual defined as lacking all humanity. Hermit-The-Prog Mar 27 #9

Individuals means single unique humans NutmegYankee Mar 27 #10

They probably speak to the families individually; this was a press conference muriel_volestrangler Mar 27 #12

Nothing cold or callous about it. John Shaft Mar 27 #11

Sad for the families of those lost. twodogsbarking Mar 27 #13

What a terrifying way to die. Sky Jewels Mar 27 #14

All Mixed Up

(597 posts)

1. Awful but something like that could have been so much worse.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 08:45 PM

Mar 26

Think. Again.

(8,141 posts)

2. .

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 08:54 PM

Mar 26

Marthe48

(16,960 posts)

3. R.I.P.

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 08:58 PM

Mar 26

I hope their loved ones get some closure. I hope their survivors get some kind of financial compensation. So sad.

AZLD4Candidate

(5,690 posts)

4. "At this point, we do not believe that we're going to find any of these individuals still alive,"

Reply to brooklynite (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2024, 10:19 PM

Mar 26

I love the cold, callous nature government and police have talking about death.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)

5. How would you say it? What's wrong with the facts as given?

Reply to AZLD4Candidate (Reply #4)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 12:04 AM

Mar 27

AZLD4Candidate

(5,690 posts)

6. Maybe with a little bit of empathy and compassion. I know. I'm passe.

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #5)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 12:12 AM

Mar 27

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)

7. If I were waiting for word, I would not want a damned sermon, just the status.

Reply to AZLD4Candidate (Reply #6)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 12:30 AM

Mar 27

AZLD4Candidate

(5,690 posts)

8. these were people's family. calling them "individuals" removes all humanity from them.

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #7)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 02:02 AM

Mar 27

like a doctor calling me "patient."

have some fucking compassion when giving status.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,346 posts)

9. I've never seen individual defined as lacking all humanity.

Reply to AZLD4Candidate (Reply #8)

Wed Mar 27, 2024, 02:32 AM

Mar 27

It is with heavy thoughts and prayers that I report to all the anxious, loving, concerned, wonderful, waiting human beings that, after hours and hours of many people risking their lives in tangled, mangled, steel and life-threateningly cold water with dangerous, swift currents and very reduced visibility with deadly obstacles at every turn, that all of us regret to inform that the conditions and the time in those conditions are incompatible with life and so we do not expect to rescue any more living souls from the wreckage. May your favorite deity comfort you.