35W Bridge Collapse - Videos & Photos

Wow. The Star Tribune has outdone itself! Now you can find out what happened to everyone on the bridge by clicking on each vehicle in this photo (you can watch or skip the video introduction) of the collapsed bridge.

The photo shows the 35W bridge and each vehicle involved in the bridge collapse. When you click on a vehicle, a photo of the people in the vehicle pops up with an explanation of what happened to them when the bridge collapsed.

Minnesota Chaplains provided an invisible, yet vital, role in comforting and consoling those at the scene of the tragedy.

Moments after the 35W bridge collapsed, a team of chaplains from the Midwest Chaplains went to the bridge site to provide comfort and care for

• those involved in the tragedy,
• those who waited near the river for their loved ones involved in the accident, and
• emergency personnel who were overcome with sadness and grief.

For days the Midwest Chaplains provided compassion and a shoulder to cry on.

Chaplain Dan Hall interviewed bridge survivors Kristen and Scott West on the Jeff & Lee radio show on 8-31-07, which you can download and listen to here.

The chaplains have received little credit or thanks for their days of volunteering, so please join me in expressing some appreciation for the Midwest Chaplains.

Photos: Five chaplains from Midwest Chaplains pray at the 35W Bridge site after consoling families who were waiting for loved ones to be found.

For those who missed it, you can see an aerial view of the 35W bridge before it collapsed on Google Maps. Please note that Google Maps will eventually update its photos, which are taken from satellites, so this image will not remain permanently. Visit the photo on Google Maps.

This is a collection of photos of the 35W bridge. The first box is a slide show of some photos. Next are links to photos of the bridge on other sites that covered the 35W bridge tragedy.

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In two of these photos of the 35W collapsed bridge in Minneapolis you can see the school bus.  These photos were taken August 2.

The school bus that was on the bridge when it collapsed can be seen here

These cars were on the edge of a crack in the bridge during the collapse

Cars on the 35W bridge can be seen here. One truck is hanging off the bridge over a crack that appeared after the collapse

This portion of the 35W bridge lays in the water.

Here, the 35W bridge dropped onto the river bank

Safety personnel review the 35W bridge after the collapse near the Mississippi river

Here are some recent photos, taken August 2, of the 35W bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis. The photos are high-resolution so you can zoom in to see various aspects of the bridge and Minneapolis, but unfortunately this also makes the photos slow to download.

The 35W bridge  after the collapse can be seen here with the downtown Minneapolis skyline in the background (more…)