Video: Florida FIU Bridge Collapse Captured on Surveillance Footage
Surveillance footage of the Florida FIU bridge collapsing onto several cars in Miami was shared to social media last night.
The video, which appeared to be filmed by someone looking at a screen playing the surveillance, was her tweeted by Monique O. Madan, a Miami Herald news reporter, on Thursday evening.
The low-resolution footage shows the $14.2 million bridge suddenly breaking apart and collapsing on moving traffic during day time.
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Here is the footage showing the #fiubridge collapse. @MiamiHerald pic.twitter.com/yTRlb8KGwt
— Monique O. Madan (@MoniqueOMadan) March 16, 2018
More than four hundred users have shared the video at the time this article was published. “It happens so fast, absolutely no warning.. It just dropped. Terrifying,” one person commented.
The new pedestrian bridge, which linked the Florida International University campus to Sweetwater city, collapsed at around 1.30 p.m. Thursday onto the busy Miami road below. The 950-ton bridge crushed several cars travelling under it when it gave way. There were also people seen walking on top of it.
At least four people have been confirmed dead and nine others have been recovered from the rubble and transported to Kendall Regional Medial Center.
Early on Friday morning, authorities revealed that the search and rescue had turned into a search and recover. Officer Lee Cowart, a spokesperson for the Miami-Dade Police department, told local news they didn’t think they will find “anybody alive in there” at this point.
At a press conference on Thursday, Marco Rubio, the junior U.S. Senator for Florida, said: “[The bridge was] going to be a signature project, one that people would identify with the school and this community, and one of a kind in terms of its engineering design... To see it on the ground there today and underneath it those who lost their lives as a result of this and those who have been injured, it's just so tragic.”
He added: He added: "The public deserves to know and the families of those who have been hurt and lost their lives deserve to know what went wrong."
President Donald Trump took to Twitter that evening to praise the “brave First Responders” and thank them for their courage.
Continuing to monitor the heartbreaking bridge collapse at FIU - so tragic. Many brave First Responders rushed in to save lives. Thank you for your courage. Praying this evening for all who are affected.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2018