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The Baltimore bridge collapse victims were hard workers, fathers and immigrants, their grieving families told NBC Washington and Telemundo Washington.
Six people are presumed dead, and they were all from Mexico or Central America.
Julio Cervantes, one of the construction workers who was fixing potholes on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed, miraculously survived by crawling out of his truck's window
The construction workers gave their lives as they worked to maintain the bridge, doing a job that too few Americans are either able or trained to take.
The construction workers who went missing in the Baltimore bridge collapse came to the Maryland area from Mexico or Central America, including an enterprising Honduran father and husband who started a delivery business before the pandemic forced him to find other work, according to his family.