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#Breaking: Pedestrian bridge at @FIU collapses, people trapped underneath. Police on scene. @MiamiHerald
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Police telling me there are “mass casualties” after bridge at FIU collapses to the ground. @MiamiHerald
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Cars are trapped under the bridge. Police confirm “multiple deaths.” @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/0XopSxLibE
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
This is the scene at @FIU. First responders are trying to see if drivers are responsive. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/cLuI54M1Ep
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
This is the scene at @FIU after bridge collapses. Police moving the media away “just in case the rest falls down.” pic.twitter.com/Vw2wZKraj1
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
This is the scene at @FIU after bridge collapse. Police moving media away “just in case the rest falls down.” @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/wqurS5IZTQ
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Police calling doctors and nurses to the scene. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/lgvkNTdQSJ
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Construction workers are telling me it’s an “engineering failure.” They say casualties haven’t been confirmed because nobody has been able to get beneath the bridge to find out. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/ywMRhjAUQa
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
I wrote about the bridge just over the weekend. They closed roads to prop it up. How quickly it came down. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/JenrCJdS0N
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Ada Collazo rushed from Hialeah after she found out her daughter’s car was crushed. She veas visiting campus for a nursing meeting. Thankfully she survived, she says. @MiamiHerald @elnuevoherald pic.twitter.com/FOJu1bUvGd
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Survivor is spared by @FIU bridge collapse. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/I0LlLhSHhv
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Police sources telling me “possibly 5 dead so far.” On scene: Miami-Dade, Doral, Sweetwater and state police. Chaplains are in route. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/2qngfMwVjB
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Family and friends of the injured or killed are being gathered inside an unknown classroom at @FIU where they’ll meet with police chaplains. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/AO3Cg3rXDu
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
A drone is hovering over the scene at @FIU. Police and first responders trying to figure out where it’s from. @MiamiHerald #fiubridge
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
The moment Ada Collazo found out her daughter Katrina was alive. @MiamiHerald #fiubridge pic.twitter.com/xM0oepr5l8
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
.@FIU nursing students and faculty wait to be dispatched to go aid victims. #fiubridge @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/oKzKdwHHf4
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Cranes are pulling the #fiubridge up to get bodies from underneath. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/hISgi7kTvV
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Katrina Collazo was at a red light when she said she felt something like small rocks fall on her car. As she turned around, the whole backseat was smashed and the car next to her, buried. #fiubridge @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/vNaRqD4Jbi
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
I’m being told one of the injured was on her way to learn more about FIU’s nursing program. She walked away unscathed. “If that’s not a sign she’s meant to be a nurse and help others, I don’t know what is,” a nursing staffer said. #fiubridge @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/UD0hqE9Ann
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Nursing students and staff are being delivered gloves. They’ll “go in at any moment,” they told me. Rescue crews are digging people out from rubble. @MiamiHerald #fiubridge pic.twitter.com/r7mrej6hyv
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
8 cars are under the rubble. 8 people taken to hospital. If you need to be reunited with friends and family, call 305.348.3451. #fiubridge @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/LpiKqhLJOU
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Service dogs are on the scene barking. Crew focusing on one vehicle. #fiubridge @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/EJMGcC9Qhk
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
View from FIU parking garage. #FIUbridge @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/5yh93BI9eC
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Rescue crews are setting up a mobile medical facility and a tarp. Medical personnel are standing by. I can hear the sound of chainsaws and the smell of burning metal as trauma officials cut through cars. #fiubridge @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/sORlg9k4Em
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Crews are cutting blocks of wood to build a sturdy platform to hold up the #fiubridge as they peek under. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/rAIdn6jPL0
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Four service dogs are barking at a white Chevy. #fiubridge @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/yxraKVigBU
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Firemen prepare a stretcher as the barks of service dogs echoes from under the #fiubridge. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/9Hj99FXq8b
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
A witness who was at the stoplight is telling me construction workers were on top of the #fiubridge as it fell. One actually jumped off and was injured. Crews conducted CPR. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/LV09uaejjm
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Just spoke with an FIU alumni. He was sitting nearby when the #fiubridge toppled. He said “it sounded like an explosion. The ground trembled.” He ran to help pedestrians, said “faint screams” were coming from the crushed cars. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/OuVhO0HgCa
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Police are evacuating all parking garages, where people are viewing rescue crew activity. They say they “don’t want cameras nearby because they’re going to lift the bridge soon.”@MiamiHerald #fiubridge pic.twitter.com/XHS9cuSiGN
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
.@FIU cops are threatening students to arrest them for trespassing if they don’t leave the university’s parking garage and stop recording. #fiubridge @MiamiHerald
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
.@MarcoRubio is scheduled to show up at the corner of 107th Ave. and 8th St., two blocks from #fiubridge in just a few minutes. @MiamiHerald
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
A yellow tarp has been placed over a small portion of the #fiubridge where a car was smashed. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/gJ7zc0zohc
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Police source telling me one female pulled out of the rubble. She was alive. @MiamiHerald #fiubridge pic.twitter.com/jMM8ENxMJO
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Officers try to take advantage of daylight as the sun sets. Here a detective crouches down to observe whatever is beneath the yellow tarp. #fiubridge @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/zxjbE0thEX
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Here’s a peek of the construction site adjacent to where the #fiubridge stood. Construction workers aren’t allowed to go home yet. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/gyDjg9huSX
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
@FIUs campus is a ghost town. Police have sent everyone home and have closed off surrounding areas for BLOCKS. Avoid the area. @MiamiHerald #FIUbridge https://t.co/WNL8VNZlQg
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 15, 2018
Mark McKenney, head of trauma, said hospital received 10 patients - 2 critical, 8 stable (bruises to broken bones) pic.twitter.com/TeUtB2iVtM
— Carli Teproff (@CTeproff) March 15, 2018
BREAKING: FIU pedestrian bridge collapses, people trapped underneath https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN pic.twitter.com/LKe9LeGVUd
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
The bridge was installed Saturday morning: https://t.co/Y8GB7ZfzFN pic.twitter.com/4HEuvePUPY
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
The FIU pedestrian bridge across Southwest Eighth Street collapsed Thursday afternoon, trapping an unknown number of people and cars underneath https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN pic.twitter.com/tFbfv0pbwq
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
Follow @MoniqueOMadan for updates from the FIU bridge collapse https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN pic.twitter.com/BVFaV7sLv4
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
UPDATE: The FIU bridge, which was not open, collapsed atop an unknown number of people and cars underneath https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN pic.twitter.com/eByBLeyv0O
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
UPDATE: At least eight people transported to the trauma center at Kendall Regional Medical Center following FIU bridge collapse https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
Statement from FIU: "We are shocked and saddened about the tragic events unfolding at the FIU-Sweetwater Bridge. At this time, we are still involved in rescue efforts and gathering information..." Read more: https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
More images coming in of the FIU pedestrian bridge collapse. https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN #FIUbridge pic.twitter.com/Ii6vhHATkC
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
Photo gallery: Pedestrian bridge collapses in front of FIU. https://t.co/8I0xC1Pnnn pic.twitter.com/VSiNmg0qcA
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
UPDATES: Police on the scene said at least six people could be dead. The Florida Highway Patrol reported five or six cars were trapped under the bridge. https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN #FIUbridge
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
Statement from MCM Construction Management, which is building the #FIUbridge, promises "a full investigation to determine exactly what went wrong." https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
Statement from Figg Bridge Design says company was "stunned" by #FIUbridge collapse. "In our 40-year history, nothing like this has ever happened before." Read more: https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
LIVE COVERAGE: Officials talk about the pedestrian bridge collapse. https://t.co/jCHU1kw3bx pic.twitter.com/2c2WTHmYIQ
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
Youth Fair won’t alter opening day in wake of nearby FIU bridge collapse #FIUbridge https://t.co/vGgZZoiyES pic.twitter.com/Y7PCjl2kBG
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
UPDATE: "There was some sort of test going on this morning," says Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez. "Some kind of work was going on at that bridge, a stress test." https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
‘Beyond tragic’: Miami congressmen shaken by FIU bridge collapse https://t.co/AVmkFZaKXS #FIUbridge pic.twitter.com/IfSqiDuIj7
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
FIU's Student Academic Success Center is functioning as a "family reunification" area. Families are advised to enter the campus from the entrance at SW 107th Ave and SW 16th St. https://t.co/zNN4oCUNiN #FIUBridge
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
"This project was built to keep students safe and pedestrians safe and it has ended up being the cause of death of drivers underneath,” @carloslcurbelo said. #FIUbridge https://t.co/AVmkFZaKXS pic.twitter.com/QyxG5pDqjL
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
“We’re going to find out what the heck happened here. This is beyond tragic,” said @MarioDB #FIUbridge https://t.co/AVmkFZaKXS pic.twitter.com/mboIaW5wkD
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
"For me, Florida International University, where I have been an adjunct professor for 10 years, is home.... Jeanette and I are praying for the victims, their families and the entire Panther community,” @marcorubio said. #FIUbridge https://t.co/AVmkFZaKXS
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
Facebook activates its safety check feature after FIU bridge collapse #FIUbridge https://t.co/MdxnmvggKb pic.twitter.com/WK7pzd78Qk
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
Here are the road closures and traffic tie-ups due to FIU bridge collapse https://t.co/sUIFxhkVZr pic.twitter.com/1qUKvDwtcB
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) March 15, 2018
