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Minn. Fast-Tracks Bridge Replacement
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 - Minn. Turns to Navy in Collapse Effort
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After five exhausting days searching for victims of an interstate bridge collapse, rescue coordinators are turning to the U.S. Navy divers considered the best. Local dive teams have yet to recover the eight people missing and believed dead in last Wednesday's disaster, in part because of dangerously unstable wreckage. "Now it's time to start going through the debris," Hennepin County Sheriff Rich Stanek said. "My folks are not salvage experts, and that's why I brought in the ones that are, the Navy."
FBI dive teams had also arrived to join in the search, with technology that includes a small submarine equipped with a robotic arm. Meanwhile, work had begun to move heavy equipment into position to eventually hoist away the tons of concrete and steel left by the collapse. The Navy said it would not have a spokesman available to talk about its role here until Tuesday. In addition to the missing, there are five known dead. Five victims also remain hospitalized in critical condition.
As the recovery effort enters a new stage, teams of designers and builders are racing to meet a dawn Wednesday deadline for showing they are qualified to bid on the bridge replacement project, which the state has put on a fast track. State transportation officials hope to award contracts next month, with the goal of having a new Interstate 35W bridge standing at the end of 2008.
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