In the midst of the misfortune, of the death of six colleagues due to the collapse of the Baltimore bridge, the Virgin Mary appeared to Moisés Díaz on Tuesday.
This is how he explained it himself in front of the cameras. That morning it was his turn to work at night and he had to go and repair potholes at Francis Scott Key. A last-minute mishap caused the shift to be changed.
“I can’t stop thanking God”, he confessed. Despite this gratitude, however, Díaz could not get over the pain of the loss of his comrades. “I saw those who disappeared in this tragedy more as my family than as friends”, he lamented.
Díaz was able to visit in the hospital the only survivor who was doing maintenance on the bridge when the Dali hit, the cargo ship that suffered a complete power outage and its pilots lost control. There was enough time for the emergency launched from the ship to allow the highway that runs through this infrastructure to be closed to vehicular traffic.
According to the version given to him by his surviving friend, the workers did not hear about the alert. They had finished patching the potholes and stopped while they waited for the concrete to dry, so they got into their vehicles to rest. This is what explains that the only two bodies recovered were inside a red pick-up.
The rescue tasks of the other four corpses (no one doubts that they are dead) have been postponed due to the danger posed by the divers trying to get among the junk, but they assure that they will return as soon as the cleaning tasks are finished, and the removal of the remains of the bridge and the cargo ship itself.
Julio Cervantes, according to his friend, managed to crawl out of the window of the collapsed vehicle. “He thought he was going to die and, even though he couldn’t swim,” he survived, Diaz explained. They all arrived in the United States chasing the promised land.
