Authorities announced early Friday morning they no longer believe they will find anyone alive in the rubble of the collapsed pedestrian bridge at Florida International University.
Overnight, the search and rescue mission became a search and recovery effort. Officer Lee Cowart, spokesperson of the Miami-Dade police department, told the Miami Herald that there are no signs of life within the rubble.
“We don’t anticipate that we will find anybody alive in there,” Cowart said.
So far, nine people have been removed from the collapse and transported to Kendall Regional Medical Center. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said that four people had died when the 950-ton bridge collapsed in minutes around 2 p.m. Thursday. The $14.2 million bridge, whose span was dropped into place on Saturday, crosses over Southwest Eighth Street and 109th Avenue, right in front of FIU’s main campus in Southwest Miami-Dade.
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