Long Beach Mayor Rex Richardson called Tuesday’s calamity at the Port of Long Beach “rare,” while Gary Herrera, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13, went a half step further, labeling it “super rare.”

Noting that no one was seriously injured, U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Stacey Crecy spoke of a “miracle.” Port of Long Beach Chief Executive Mario Cordero used terms such as “a blessing” and “unprecedented.”

Those were some of the comments during a roughly 35-minute news conference Wednesday at the Port of Long Beach, where personnel from the Coast Guard, the city of Long Beach, the port and worker representatives tried to explain how 75 cargo containers dramatically slipped off a vessel docked at the port and into the nearby water or on top of an adjacent barg

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