When the Key Bridge fell, women rose up to play important roles in response, recovery

Ninety-nine days after the Francis Scott Key Bridge fell, Robyn Bianchi’s job was finally complete. On July 3, the assistant salvage master for New Jersey-based Donjon Marine lingered on a pier to watch a container ship pass through the channel where she had worked seven days a week, sometimes 18 hours a day, directing divers’ underwater efforts to cut and clear away the bridge’s wreckage.