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afternoon, pictures are bad, some fatalities

it was at FIU,

it actually opened three days ago, wow

Ouch

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c ... 16174.html

http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/co ... 08aa8.html

This Thursday evening, June 21, 2012 photo shows the Chesapeake, Va., side of the new South Norfolk Jordan Bridge where a segment from the bridge construction dropped onto the railroad tracks below earlier in the day. The main companies behind the pedestrian bridge that collapsed in the Miami-area on Thursday, March 15, 2018, have faced questions about their work and one of the companies was fined in 2012 when a 90-ton section of the South Norfolk Jordan Bridge bridge collapsed in Virginia. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

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and just found this:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... =newsalert

Two companies involved in building the bridge that collapsed Thursday at Florida International University have been accused of shoddy work resulting in bridge collapses in recent years.

According to a report in the Miami New Times, lead contractor Munilla Construction Management was sued less than two weeks ago over the collapse of a “makeshift bridge” built at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport as part of a major airport expansion.

According to a lawsuit filed March 5 in Miami-Dade Civil Court, TSA worker Jose Perez was traversing the bridge last October when it “broke under [his] weight.”

“They built this makeshift bridge in the area where all the employees work, and it was poorly done. He fell and hurt himself really badly,” Tesha Allison, a lawyer representing Mr. Perez, told the New Times. “He had multiple broken bones and damage to his spine… They did shoddy work.”

Techmomof2 wrote:http://www.roanoke.com/news/virginia/co ... 08aa8.html

This Thursday evening, June 21, 2012 photo shows the Chesapeake, Va., side of the new South Norfolk Jordan Bridge where a segment from the bridge construction dropped onto the railroad tracks below earlier in the day. The main companies behind the pedestrian bridge that collapsed in the Miami-area on Thursday, March 15, 2018, have faced questions about their work and one of the companies was fined in 2012 when a 90-ton section of the South Norfolk Jordan Bridge bridge collapsed in Virginia. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

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and just found this:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... =newsalert

Two companies involved in building the bridge that collapsed Thursday at Florida International University have been accused of shoddy work resulting in bridge collapses in recent years.

According to a report in the Miami New Times, lead contractor Munilla Construction Management was sued less than two weeks ago over the collapse of a “makeshift bridge” built at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport as part of a major airport expansion.

According to a lawsuit filed March 5 in Miami-Dade Civil Court, TSA worker Jose Perez was traversing the bridge last October when it “broke under [his] weight.”

“They built this makeshift bridge in the area where all the employees work, and it was poorly done. He fell and hurt himself really badly,” Tesha Allison, a lawyer representing Mr. Perez, told the New Times. “He had multiple broken bones and damage to his spine… They did shoddy work.”

Somehow the thought that a TSA worker could collapse a bridge doesn't seem completely unrealistic.

I just saw posts by 2 VT Alumni friends who know the same family in Florida, one's friends with the husband the other with the wife. The husband has been missing overnight. His truck is under the bridge.