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A bakery worker who was one of the last people to have crossed the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore before its collapse last week is telling his story, saying in recent interviews he is "really lucky" not to have been a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/disasters" target="_blank" rel="noopener">victim of the disaster.</a>Larry Desantis told ABC News he believes he crossed the bridge early Tuesday between 1:26 and 1:27 a.m. while heading to his position as head baker at <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/northeast/maryland" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Herman’s Bakery in Dundalk.</a> At 1:29 a.m., Maryland Transportation Authority Police dispatch audio captured an officer saying, "The whole bridge just fell down," after one of its support pillars was struck by the cargo ship Dali. "It makes me think, you know. I mean, I'm really lucky," Desantis said. "One minute later, I wouldn't be here." Maryland Transportation Authority Police had made a call to halt all traffic on the bridge just prior to the collision involving the Dali. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/baltimore-bridge-collapse-maryland-governor-conditions-currently-unsafe-rescue-divers" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">MARYLAND GOVERNOR SAYS CONDITIONS ARE ‘UNSAFE’ FOR RESCUE DIVERS AFTER BRIDGE COLLAPSE</a> "It was an eerie feeling because there were no vehicles at all," Desantis told ABC News while recalling traveling on the bridge at that time, adding that normally "you'll see 20 or 30 tractor-trailers coming and going." He also said to WBAL that he wasn’t aware of the bridge collapse until a co-worker called him and asked where he was. "While I'm sitting at the light, the woman here called me and said, 'Where you at?' because she knew. She said, 'Did you go home?' And I said, 'No, I just went over the bridge,' and she said, 'Well, it just collapsed,’" Desantis said. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/baltimore-key-bridge-house-republicans-divided-biden-vows-feds-foot-bill" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">HOUSE REPUBLICANS DIVIDED AFTER BIDEN VOWS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL FOOT THE BILL FOR KEY BRIDGE RECONSTRUCTION</a> The collapse left six construction workers dead. As of Monday, only two of their bodies had been recovered from the waters of the Patapsco River. Maryland Gov. Wes Moore said Saturday that conditions remain "unsafe" <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/disasters/disaster-response" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">for rescue divers</a> due to weather and debris following the collapse of the bridge. "Conditions in the water make it unsafe for rescue divers. And we're not just talking about weather and wind," Moore said at a press conference. "We're talking about debris, we're talking about wreckage. We're talking about pieces of the Key Bridge that are in the water." Fox News’ Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report.

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content: A bakery worker who was one of the last people to have crossed the Francis
 Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore before its collapse last week is telling his story,
 saying in recent interviews he is "really lucky" not to have been a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/disasters"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">victim of the disaster.</a>Larry Desantis
 told ABC News he believes he crossed the bridge early Tuesday between 1:26 and 1:27
 a.m. while heading to his position as head baker at <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/us-regions/northeast/maryland"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Herman’s Bakery in Dundalk.</a> At 1:29 a.m., Maryland
 Transportation Authority Police dispatch audio captured an officer saying, "The
 whole bridge just fell down," after one of its support pillars was struck by the
 cargo ship Dali. "It makes me think, you know. I mean, I'm really lucky,"
 Desantis said. "One minute later, I wouldn't be here." Maryland Transportation
 Authority Police had made a call to halt all traffic on the bridge just prior to
 the collision involving the Dali. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/baltimore-bridge-collapse-maryland-governor-conditions-currently-unsafe-rescue-divers"
 target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">MARYLAND GOVERNOR SAYS CONDITIONS
 ARE ‘UNSAFE’ FOR RESCUE DIVERS AFTER BRIDGE COLLAPSE</a> "It
 was an eerie feeling because there were no vehicles at all," Desantis told ABC News
 while recalling traveling on the bridge at that time, adding that normally "you'll
 see 20 or 30 tractor-trailers coming and going." He also said to WBAL that
 he wasn’t aware of the bridge collapse until a co-worker called him and asked where
 he was. "While I'm sitting at the light, the woman here called me and said,
 'Where you at?' because she knew. She said, 'Did you go home?' And I said, 'No,
 I just went over the bridge,' and she said, 'Well, it just collapsed,’" Desantis
 said. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/baltimore-key-bridge-house-republicans-divided-biden-vows-feds-foot-bill"
 target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">HOUSE REPUBLICANS DIVIDED AFTER
 BIDEN VOWS FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL FOOT THE BILL FOR KEY BRIDGE RECONSTRUCTION</a> The
 collapse left six construction workers dead. As of Monday, only two of their bodies
 had been recovered from the waters of the Patapsco River. Maryland Gov. Wes
 Moore said Saturday that conditions remain "unsafe" <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/disasters/disaster-response"
 target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">for rescue divers</a> due to weather and
 debris following the collapse of the bridge. "Conditions in the water make
 it unsafe for rescue divers. And we're not just talking about weather and wind,"
 Moore said at a press conference. "We're talking about debris, we're talking about
 wreckage. We're talking about pieces of the Key Bridge that are in the water." Fox
 News’ Haley Chi-Sing contributed to this report. 
summary: Larry Desantis, a bakery worker, says if he crossed the Francis Scott Key
 Bridge in Baltimore a minute later last Tuesday, that he &quot;wouldn&apos;t be
 here.&quot;
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