Dozens of containers onboard the cargo ship that toppled the Baltimore Key Bridge have hazardous materials inside, Coast Guard officials said Wednesday.
Dozens of containers onboard the cargo ship that toppled the Baltimore Key Bridge have hazardous materials inside, Coast Guard officials said Wednesday.
The Dali tanker ship was carrying 56 containers with hazardous materials out of the total 4,700 containers atop its deck when it smashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, Coast Guard Vice Adm. Peter Gautier said during a White House Briefing.
But the official stressed that there is “no threat to the public” as most of the potentially dangerous containers were unaffected by the collision, according to Fox News.
“The majority of those containers are closer to the pilot house and are completely unaffected by the damage to the bow of the ship,” Gautier said. “And we have not determined that there’s any kind of release at this time.”
The Coast Guard and the Army Corps of Engineers will lead cleanup efforts — to remove the ship, the mangled remains of the steel bridge and any vehicles trapped below the wreck in the depths of the Patapsco River.
