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36K likes, 2,018 comments - newsweek on March 27, 2024: "Maryland Transportation Authority dispatch audio reveals the panicked moments before and after the Key bridge collapse in Maryland Tuesda..."
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Here is a transcript of audio from a Maryland Transportation Authority Police channel, revealing how officers responded to the mayday call and successfully halted traffic. The audio was posted on the Broadcastify website.
1:27:53 a.m. Speaker 1: I need one of you guys on the south side, one of you guys on the north side, hold all traffic on the Key Bridge. There’s a ship approaching that just lost their steering. So until they get that under control, we’ve got to stop all traffic.
1:28:09 a.m. Speaker 2: (inaudible) I’m en route to the south side.
1:28:13 a.m. Speaker 3: (inaudible) I’m holding traffic now. I was driving but we stopped prior to the bridge, so I’ll have all outer loop traffic stopped.
1:28:25 a.m. Speaker 1: 10-4, is there a crew working on the bridge right now?
1:28:29 a.m. Speaker 4: (inaudible)
1:28:35 a.m. Speaker 1: Got it.
1:28:37 a.m. Speaker 4: Want me to stop traffic along this side right now?
1:28:42 a.m. Speaker 1: Yeah if we could stop traffic, just make sure no one’s on the bridge right now. I’m not sure where there’s a crew up there. You might want to notify whoever the foreman is, see if we could get them off the bridge temporarily.
1:28:58 a.m. Speaker 4: 10-4, once the other unit gets here I’ll ride up on the bridge. I have all inner loop traffic stopped at this time.
1:29:17 a.m. Speaker 4: Once you get here, I’ll go grab the workers on the Key Bridge and then stop the outer loop.
1:29:27 a.m. Speaker 5: C-13 Dispatch, the whole bridge just fell down! (inaudible), whoever, everybody, the whole bridge just collapsed.
1:29:35 a.m. Speaker 6: 10-4. Dispatch is direct.
1:29:35 a.m. Speaker 4: That’s correct. (inaudible) First time.
1:29:48 a.m. Speaker 1: Do we know if all traffic was stopped?
1:29:51 a.m. Speaker 4: I can’t get to the other side, sir, the bridge is down. We’re going to have to get somebody on the other side in Anne Arundel County, M.S.P. to get up here and stop traffic coming northbound on the Key Bridge.
1:29:51 a.m. Speaker 5: C13, I’m holding all traffic northbound.
Wow, thank you so much!
this is the full audio https://htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/dispatchaudio-660442a9a28dd.mp3
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what's your impressions? I listened a couple of time. I hear nothing faked.
there's a couple of dropouts that could be edits or it could just be regular interference. One part seems like they might have edited somebodies' name out, but hard to tell, there's some digital artifacts in the background...it gets electronicy.
I have done some audio work.
Things I noticed.
It seems like the voices are in different environments/different microphones. Even the main dispatcher audio is not pristine, there's some fuzz to it, like it might be recorded too high. I have a fairly decent pair of headphones.
It seems far too subtle for someone to fake. Like it's not overly dramatic. The lingo feels authentic.
Since you provided the transcript, I get a better understanding of what happened. I don’t think it’s fake now, but when I first saw the video and and heard the audio, I was a little sus.
the newsweek video is shorter. The transcript is from the full video and seems clearer.
Off the subject but IMO I believe the collapse was intentional, but not to injure or kill individuals but to paralyze infrastructure. It’s an act of war and we are not on a traditional battlefield. They want to take down the states covertly. “Death by a thousand cuts” style while normies go about their day.
I agree with you 100%
It has everything to do with commerce
Apparently there’s four battle ships that are stuck in that Harbor now too.
But the wHItE hATs aRe iN COntrOL 🤪
I saw that! 2 of the fastest US military carriers. IDK what to think. We are definitely being attacked and it won’t be clean but there’s def something else on the horizon. I am an optimist though.
I would expect a little more emotion in the guys voice when he says this:
1:29:27 a.m. Speaker 5: C-13 Dispatch, the whole bridge just fell down! (inaudible), whoever, everybody, the whole bridge just collapsed.
Seriously, if you saw that, would you be speaking in a voice that expresses something incredulous, something that you've never expected to see in your lifetime? I think you would. We all would be freaked out and kind of screaming.
Very good point.
no.