A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after a large boat collided with it early Tuesday morning, and multiple vehicles fell into the water. Authorities were trying to rescue at least seven people. A large vessel crashed into the bridge, catching on fire before sinking and causing multiple vehicles to fall into the Patapsco River, according to a video posted on X, formerly known as Twitter. \u201cAll lanes closed both directions for incident on I-695 Key Bridge. Traffic is being detoured,\u201d the Maryland Transportation Authority posted on X.<\/p>\n
Mayor Brandon M. Scott and Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. posted that emergency personnel were responding and rescue efforts were underway. Emergency responders were searching for at least seven people believed to be in the water, Kevin Cartwright, director of communications for the Baltimore Fire Department, told The Associated Press around 3 a.m. He said agencies received 911 calls around 1:30 a.m. reporting a vessel travelling outbound from Baltimore that had struck a column on the bridge, causing it to collapse.<\/p>\n
Multiple vehicles were on the bridge at the time, including one the size of a tractor-trailer. \u201cOur focus right now is trying to rescue and recover these people,\u201d Cartwright said. He said it\u2019s too early to know how many people were affected but called the collapse a \u201cdeveloping mass casualty event.\u201d Cartwright said it appears there are \u201csome cargo or retainers hanging from the bridge,\u201d creating unsafe and unstable conditions, and that emergency responders are operating cautiously as a result. \u201cThis is a dire emergency,\u201d he said. The Francis Scott Key Bridge opened in 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A portion of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed after a large boat collided with it early Tuesday\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":34864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11667,11666,11669,11668,11673,11671,5480,5172,11672,6441,11674,95,7072,11670],"class_list":["post-34863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-baltimore","tag-bridge-collapse","tag-collision-with-large-boat","tag-francis-scott-key-bridge","tag-maryland-transportation-authority","tag-patapsco-river","tag-rescue-efforts","tag-stability","tag-traffic-diversion","tag-trucks","tag-unsafe-conditions","tag-usa","tag-vehicles","tag-vehicles-collapsed-into-water"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}