Terrible.
Quote:At least 99 people missing after Miami Beach building collapseMetro:
'At least 99 people were missing on Thursday afternoon after a 12-story Miami Beach-area condo partially
collapsed, authorities said. Miami-Dade Commissioner Sally Heyman on Thursday morning told CNN that
51 people believed to have lived at Champlain Towers South were unaccounted for.
However, that figure was upped to 99 by the afternoon. It was not clear whether the missing people were inside
the building when it partially collapsed Thursday around 1.30am.
Those people had ‘not either called out or had people call in to reach them’, Heyman said. It was not immediately
known whether the people were inside at the time of the collapse due to ‘vacations or anything else, so we’re still
waiting and unfortunately the hope is still there, but it is weaning’, she said.
As Heyman spoke, crews wrapped up their search efforts and moved on to recovery.
‘The rest of the search and rescue efforts has been done by man power on the outside, search on the barrier
quarters, also with drones and with dogs,’ Heyman said. ‘It has shifted now or started to shift to recovery.’
First responders and fire rescue personnel searched all parts of the building that still stood.
Only the northeast corridor of the structure collapsed, with about 55 of the 136 apartment units destroyed,
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Assistant Fire Chief Ray Jadallah said during a press conference.
About 40 people were evacuated, some of them with the help of other people, Heyman said.
Earlier on Thursday morning, Jadallah confirmed that one woman died, at least 10 people were injured and 35
people were pulled from the rubble as search efforts were underway.
Late morning Thursday, rescue and recovery operations were put ‘in pause mode because we have a thunderstorm
that has managed to come ashore’, Heyman said. Surveillance video obtained by WSVN showed the moment that
part of the condo in the town of Surfside, Florida, fell.
One part of the tower collapsed first, followed by an adjacent section seconds later. It sent a massive cloud of debris
into the night sky...'
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