Condo Building in Miami Collapses [Video]

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    Jun 24, 2021


    At least one person has died and dozens are missing after the collapse of a 12-story residential building north of Miami, Florida, officials say.

    The number of people who have been located now stands at 102, while 99 are still unaccounted for, according to Miami-Dade Mayor Danielle Levine-Cava.

    It is unclear how many people were in the building at the time.

    The cause of the collapse - affecting about half of the 130 units in the complex - remains unclear.

    The block in the town of Surfside was built in 1980.

    A number of Latin American migrants have been reported missing by their consulates.


    Relatives of the first lady of Paraguay are also among the missing, Paraguayan officials said. Rescuers were unable to contact the sister and brother-in-law of first lady Silvana López Moreira, along with their three children and a domestic worker.

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    Rescuers pulled 35 people from the wreckage, officials said. Ten were assessed and treated, of whom two were sent to hospital.

    Search and rescue teams are working from a parking garage underneath the wreckage as they explore the rubble for survivors.

    A small fire broke out during the search but was extinguished within 20 minutes, said Miami-Dade fire chief Raide Jadallah.

    He said they had been using sonar and search cameras as well as specially trained dogs, but it was a "slow and methodical" process because of the risk of shifting rubble.

    "The back of the building, probably a third or more, is totally pancaked," Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told a news conference.

    Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who visited the site on Thursday afternoon, said the fire and rescue service was still in "search and rescue mode".

    "The TV doesn't do it justice. It is really, really traumatic to see the collapse of a massive structure like that," he said.

    The BBC's Will Grant, at the scene, said relatives of the missing have been huddled around a community centre a few blocks from the collapsed building, waiting for information and fearing the worst.

    President Joe Biden said he was waiting for Mr DeSantis to declare an emergency and officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) were already at the scene.

    "I say to the people of Florida, whatever help you want, what the federal government can provide, we're waiting, just ask us. We'll be there," Mr Biden said.

    'It looked like something from 9/11'
    Police gave the building's location as 8777 Collins Avenue, the address of the 12-storey Champlain Towers. The city of Surfside runs along Collins Avenue, north of Miami Beach city limits.


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    One man who was out with his brothers walking their dog described hearing the building come down.

    "Basically we heard a really big rumble and we thought it was a motorcycle, you know, and we turned around and saw a cloud of dust just coming our way," he told CBS Miami.

    "We were like - 'what is going on?' We went rushing toward it with shirts over our faces and the security guard came out and we were, like, 'what happened?' and she said the building collapsed."

    A man who witnessed the aftermath of the collapse told CNN, "It looked like something from 9/11," referring to the attacks that brought down the Twin Towers in New York in 2001.

    Santo Mejil, 50, was woken when his wife called from a unit on the ninth floor of one of the three buildings that make up Champlain Towers. She is an overnight caretaker for an elderly disabled woman.

    "She said she heard a big explosion," Mr Mejil told the Miami Herald. "It felt like an earthquake." His wife was among those rescued.

    A man who lives in a neighbouring building described what happened for CBS: "The building shook and then I looked out the window and you couldn't see, I thought it was like a storm or something coming in.

    "When the dust cleared, the back two-thirds of the building was gone, it was down to the ground."
     
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    Jun 24, 2021
    Usually, I’m in support of @Ordinary Joel ’s likes, but this one needs some explaining.

    Devastating.
     
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    Jun 25, 2021
    Holy s---, wtf? How does something like this happen? Hoping for survivors.
     
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    Jun 25, 2021
    Devastating indeed, just showing thanks to Worm for posting it.
     
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    Jun 25, 2021
    Really scary...I read that it’s been caving in for a while...poor engineering and developers that did not fix the problem...

    another expert says
    Miami's salty coastal air could have facilitated the erosion of steel

    With every hurricane, new construction codes come out. New engineering codes," he said. " … This is 40 years later [since the building was constructed]. The codes have changed at least a dozen times. I know they have. So, some of these older buildings are not really built to withstand the type of same weather conditions as when they were built originally."
     
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    Jun 25, 2021
    Someone is gonna go to prison over this
     
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    Jun 25, 2021
    That’s what happens as the US starts to turn into a 3rd world s--- hole with Biden in office.
     
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