More than 150 people remained missing four days on from the collapse of a beachfront condo in Surfside, Florida, with fears the death toll of nine will rise even higher. Rescue efforts continued Sunday as authorities confirmed one person died in the hospital and workers had pulled four more bodies from the wreckage. (June 27)
“So I am confirming today that the death toll is at nine….” As the death toll rose to nine Sunday with more than 150 people still missing, rescue teams kept picking through the rubble of the Miami-area condo building that collapsed last week. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said the additional bodies, and human remains, were found as the rescue team dug a massive trench through rubble overnight. “We’ve identified four of the victims and notified the next of kin. My deepest condolences to the families, the friends, the communities to those who’ve lost their lives, and my prayers with the families and the whole community as they mourn this tragic loss.” The four of the nine victims identified ranged in age from 54 to 83. They were a couple married for 58 years, a volunteer Little League baseball coach and the mother of a 15-year-old boy who was one of the few survivors of the collapse.Officials remained hopeful more survivors would be found in air pockets that may have formed in the pancaked debris. The searchers - including experts sent by Israel and Mexico - are using drones, sonar, dogs and infrared scanners.Meanwhile, questions swirl about the tower's structural integrity. Surfside officials have released documents including an engineer's report from 2018 that found major structural damage beneath the pool deck and "concrete deterioration" in the underground parking garage of the 12-story building.The report was produced for the Champlain Towers South condominium board in preparation for a major repair project set for this year.A lawyer who works with the condo association said the issues outlined in the report were typical for older buildings in the area and did not alarm board members, all of whom lived in the tower.
Angela Gonzalez and her teenage daughter, Devon, fell from the ninth floor to the fifth floor as the Surfside apartment complex in Miami crumbled.
Search-and-rescue crews continued a hunt for survivors on Sunday, in the aftermath of a building collapse in a town near Miami, Florida.The official death toll has risen to nine with more than 150 people still unaccounted for after Thursday's collapse in Surfside. House Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz represents the district where a part of the Champlain Towers South condo fell. "One of the things, one of the things I think it's important to stress, we are used to dealing with natural disasters, and the aftermath of natural disasters here in South Florida, obviously we live in hurricane alley. And so, you know, FEMA in our midst is a common occurrence."On Friday the White House said it authorised the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief efforts. But rescue teams picking through the rubble for a fourth day have detected no further signs of life. Officials in Surfside however remained hopeful more survivors would be found in air pockets that may have formed in the debris."What we're talking about here, as I've said before is an unprecedented tragedy and unprecedented crisis, and one that is incomparable really anywhere in the US before now. "We obviously have some realism that we're dealing with, but I keep telling them as long as the experts that we trust are telling you they have hoped to find people who might have been able to survive, but we have to make sure that we hold on to that hope."What caused nearly half of the twelve-story building to cave has yet to be determined. But a 2018 engineer's inspection report found major structural deterioration in the parking garage beneath the 40-year-old tower.
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Officials say the death toll in the Florida building collapse has climbed to 9. Manuel Bojorquez joins CBSN with the latest.
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As the search for survivors entered its fourth day, the death toll rose to nine in the 12-story condo tower in Surfside, Fla. that partially collapsed. Officials pressed ahead with efforts to investigate the cause of the failure and assess the safety of nearby buildings. Photo: Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/Shutterstock
SURFSIDE, Fla. (Reuters) -The official death toll from the partial collapse of a high-rise condominium complex near Miami rose to nine on Sunday, with more than 150 people still missing, as rescue teams picked through the rubble for a fourth day without detecting further signs of life. What caused nearly half the 12-story, 156-unit building to cave in in the early hours of Thursday as residents slept has yet to be determined, but a 2018 engineer's inspection report found major structural deterioration in the parking garage beneath the 40-year-old tower. Officials in Surfside, the shore town near Miami where the building stood along the beach, said hope remained that rescuers would yet discover survivors in air pockets that may have formed in the pancaked debris.
Progress against fire and international help boosts effortAnxiety grows among residents of neighbouring tower Rescue workers search the rubble of the Champlain Towers South. Photograph: Lynne Sladky/AP Officials in Florida insisted on Sunday there was still hope of finding survivors in the rubble of a collapsed oceanfront condominium building, as firefighters finally controlled a large blaze inside the wreckage that hampered three days of rescue efforts. But the death toll rose to nine after the
As surviving family members of the collapsed Surfside condominium cling to all signs of hope, one family says it received 16 calls from a landline belonging to their grandparents who remain among the 156 unaccounted for as rescuers continue to search through debris for signs of life.
Theresa Velasquez had just flown into Miami from LAX on Wednesday night.
The husband of Cassie Stratton heard a "blood-curdling scream" on the other end of the phone as his wife was engulfed in the Miami condo collapse.
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The death toll climbed to nine after a condo tower collapsed in Surfside, Florida. Rescue teams from the world joined the search. Here's the latest.
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The firm documented serious structural issues throughout the building in 2018 - particularly in the parking garage, pool area, and on the balconies.
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