Liberty Construction Seeks to Ensure Safety of Campus Bridges

“Hey, what’s up?”

Whenever Bruce and Debbie Brownfield picked up a phone call from their son, Brandon Brownfield, those were the first words they heard.

As a tower crane technician, Brandon Brownfield spent some days in the office but spent most days working hundreds of feet off the ground. Two or three times a week, he would call his parents and chat for the 30-minute commute home after leaving his office or job site.

But on Thursday, March 15, around 5 p.m., it was Brandon Brownfield’s wife and mother of his three daughters, Chelsea Brownfield, who made a phone call to Bruce and Debbie Brownfield. Chelsea Brownfield was unable to contact her husband and was letting her parents-in-law know that the GPS tracker on his truck showed that he was very close to the pedestrian bridge collapse at Florida International University that had happened that day.

Immediately after receiving the call, Bruce and Debbie Brownfield packed some clothes and began the three-hour drive down to the site of the bridge collapse. When they were about half an hour away, a friend called to confirm that Brandon Brownfield’s truck was underneath the bridge.

The Brownfields arrived at the scene of the bridge collapse late Thursday night…

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