13 YEARS GONE: Community reflects on Causeway tragedy

(Staff photo by Ray Quiroga) Local officials, family and friends of the Sept. 15, 2001 causeway collapse victims are seen Monday at a memorial site in Port Isabel observing a moment of silence for the tragedy’s 13th anniversary.

(Staff photo by Ray Quiroga)
Local officials, family and friends of the Sept. 15, 2001 causeway collapse victims are seen Monday at a memorial site in Port Isabel observing a moment of silence for the tragedy’s 13th anniversary.


By RAY QUIROGA

Port Isabel-South Padre PRESS
rayq@portisabelsouthpadre.com

Amid the chaos that fateful morning of Sept. 15, 2001, something else was amiss, Port Isabel EMS Director Charlie Wood recalled — Port Isabel Fire Marshal Bob Harris wasn’t among the first responders at that tragic scene. “Everyone was wondering where he was because he was always at our calls. He was the first person there. He was never, not on a call, and that’s when we started putting everything together and realized that Bob may have been a victim of the collapse.”

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