- Shannon Weidemann | August 30, 2007 1:46 PM |
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Defective & Dangerous ProductsMetz Fresh has issued a product recall for bagged spinach that may be contaminated with salmonella. The company routinely tests spinach as it is processed in their plants. Metz Fresh reports that most of the spinach was found before going to the consumer. "As soon as we learned of the presumptive positive test, we directed all customers to hold all boxes of the spinach affected as a...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 22, 2007 11:38 AM |
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MiscellaneousThe death toll in the 35W Bridge collapse now stands at 13 as the final victim was pulled from the Mississippi River on Monday. Search crews and the family expressed relief that he had been found. The victim was a member of the construction crew that had been doing concrete work on the bridge at the time of the collapse. After Stanek thanked authorities for completing the recovery of the...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 20, 2007 9:08 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe twelfth victim of the 35W Bridge collapse was found on Sunday and identified today. There is only one more person on the official missing person's list. Navy divers work in the Mississippi River when there is no salvage work going on. They have to wait for debris to be cleared in order to search the area. Investigators are still looking into the cause of the bridge collapse.According to...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 16, 2007 11:53 AM |
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MiscellaneousNavy divers recovered the remains of two more victims of the August 1 35W Bridge collapse. They were found when their cars were retrieved from the bottom of the Mississippi River last yesterday and early this morning. The remains were not identified but are believed to be two of the four people on the official missing list. The vehicles recovered Wednesday and Thursday were found on the...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 15, 2007 10:39 PM |
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MiscellaneousWhen the 35W Bridge collapsed on August 1st a school bus was one of the vehicles on the bridge. It was carrying 52 children and several adults. Some were injured but all of them made it off the bridge alive. The successful rescue effort was credited to three people. Today those people were honored by the school bus company. "Kim Dahl, our bus driver still had her hands on the wheel,"...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 14, 2007 10:01 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe Minnesota Department of Transportation presented a preliminary plan to the Minneapolis City Council for a bridge to replace the 35W Bridge over the Mississippi River. The 35W Bridge collapsed on August 1st, killing at least 9 people and injuring over 100 others. State authorities need support from the Council to have the new bridge built by December 2008 and ease traffic congestion.But at...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 12, 2007 10:50 PM |
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MiscellaneousClean up efforts at the scene of the 35W Bridge collapse included removal of the school bus that was on the bridge. The school bus was carrying 52 children when it collapsed on August 1st. Everyone on the bus survived the accident. In all, 44 vehicles have been removed from the bridge since its collapse. About 100 vehicles had been on the structure when it fell Aug. 1, said Minnesota...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 11, 2007 1:35 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe Mississippi River rose 1 to 2 feet overnight due to rain and there is a dangerous current. Navy divers have halted their search and recovery mission until conditions are safer. The official death toll is eight from the 35W Bridge collapse that happened in Minneapolis on August 1st. "Dive team members assigned to the Navy Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit will continue to assess the situation...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 10, 2007 5:07 PM |
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MiscellaneousA victim of the Minneapolis bridge collapse was pulled from the wreckage today bringing the death toll to nine. Three victims were found yesterday. The investigation for the bridge collapse received a new piece of evidence as well that may prove very helpful in figuring out what went wrong. The investigation into the cause of the collapse will be aided by an aerial photograph taken just...
- Courtney Mills | August 10, 2007 2:57 PM |
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MiscellaneousDivers continued to search a week after the accident for remains in the recovery effort at the downed Minneapolis I35W Bridge. Two victims were pulled from the wreckage Thursday morning, bringing the total unaccounted for down to six. Difficult conditions in the murky river have prevented aggressive search efforts throughout the past week, making progress to reach victims in the underwater...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 09, 2007 6:36 PM |
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MiscellaneousRescue divers pulled two bodies from the 35W Bridge collapse wreckage in Minneapolis today. This will raise the death toll to seven people killed when the bridge over the Mississippi River collapsed last Wednesday. The unidentified victims were removed and taken to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner, police said.Eight people had been listed as missing from the August 1 collapse of the...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 08, 2007 1:42 PM |
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MiscellaneousEyewitnesses recall seeing a person in a kayak under or around the 35W Bridge just before it collapsed. The Minneapolis Police Department is searching for the person and would like to interview them. They are also asking people to stay clear of the area as it is very hazardous. Thousands of people continue to flock to the site, and 14 people have been arrested for breaching the perimeter so...
- Jenny Albano | August 07, 2007 11:42 AM |
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Automobile AccidentsAfter a week of searching for victims from the Minneapolis bridge collapse, rescue coordinators have decided to bring in Navy and FBI divers. The local teams have not found the remaining eight people that are missing and believed to be dead, mainly due to very unstable debris and wreckage. In addition to those missing, five people have been confirmed dead and five others are still in hospitals...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 06, 2007 1:56 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe state of Minnesota has around 19,500 bridges and according to state inspectors 103 of them had a worse rating than the 35W Bridge in Minneapolis. 1,141 bridges are rated as being structurally deficient. The rating system is not necessarily for the safety of the bridge but an indicator of when it will qualify for state and federal funding for replacement and repair. Among these are 103...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 05, 2007 7:42 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe National Transportation Safety Board is now interviewing members of the road construction team that were working on the 35W Bridge just before it collapsed. The Minneapolis bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River during rush hour traffic on Wednesday, injuring over 100 people. The National Transportation Safety Board interviewed construction workers and gathered information on the...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 04, 2007 6:30 PM |
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MiscellaneousRescue crews at the scene of the Minneapolis bridge collapse have pulled a car from the water today. They have not been able to locate the passengers that should have been in the car. It wasn't immediately certain whether the vehicle, which was pulled out for closer inspection, contained any bodies.Families of the missing continued to wait for word that any bodies had been found in the...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 03, 2007 9:21 PM |
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MiscellaneousInvestigators looking into the 35W Bridge collapse in Minneapolis have discovered that one end of the bridge fell sideways while the rest of the bridge fell straight down. They are not sure if that was the cause of the bridge collapse or because of the bridge collapsing. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating.``What we have is a step forward,'' Rosenker said of the...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 03, 2007 1:21 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe death toll from the 35W Bridge collapse in Minneapolis has now been raised to five. Rescue workers are slowly going through the wreckage to find victims. There are eight people missing and feared dead in the collapse. More bodies had been spotted in the fast-moving currents, which were "even more treacherous" today than a day earlier, Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said.Fourteen...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 02, 2007 7:47 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe Federal Highway Administration is urging each state to inspect their bridges that are like the one that collapsed in Minneapolis. The 35W Bridge is a steel-deck truss bridge and over 750 such bridges exist around the United States. Mary Peters, the Transportation Secretary, sent out letters after the bridge collapse yesterday."Even though we don't know what caused this collapse, we want...
- Shannon Weidemann | August 02, 2007 9:29 AM |
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MiscellaneousYesterday during the evening rush hour the Interstate 35W bridge collapsed into the Mississippi River. The official death tolls stands at 4 and 20 people are reported as missing. The bridge was full of cars, trucks and a school bus. All of the children on the school bus have been accounted for and several are being treated at local hospitals for their injuries. Today's focus by rescue crews...
- Staff Writer | August 01, 2007 6:56 PM |
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MiscellaneousThe 35W Bridge in Minneapolis has collapsed into the Mississippi River during rush hour this afternoon. There are reports of fatalities and injuries but no numbers at this time. The accident occurred about 6:05 PM, and according to witnesses, the bridge was packed with bumper-to-bumper traffic at the time of collapse. At this hour there are still motorists trapped on the bridge. Every ambulance...