Surfside Resident Who Survived Condominium Collapse Wants Answers
3 years, 5 months ago

Surfside Resident Who Survived Condominium Collapse Wants Answers

NPR  

Surfside Resident Who Survived Condominium Collapse Wants Answers LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Rescuers are in a desperate bid to try and find survivors in Surfside, Fla., amid the wreckage of the Champlain Towers condo building. I mean, I know that sounds silly, but that's all I want, my cat back. I also want you to know that that couple - that they keep saying in the news that 1001 - it's a man and his wife - that the niece was visiting them - they were the nicest people, the nicest people, were always - I'm by myself. GARCIA-NAVARRO: As you just heard there, Ms. Alvarez said that the residents of Champlain Towers were reassured by a representative from the town of Surfside that the building was safe.

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Miami Beach condo building evacuated near deadly collapse
2 years, 1 month ago

Miami Beach condo building evacuated near deadly collapse

Associated Press  

MIAMI BEACH — An evacuation order has abruptly forced out residents of a 14-story oceanfront building on the same avenue where a condominium collapse killed nearly 100 people last year. The city posted an unsafe structure notice Thursday evening at the Port Royale condominium, Miami Beach spokesperson Melissa Berthier said in an email. During an inspection about 10 months ago, …

A year on, Surfside remembers 98 victims of condo collapse
2 years, 6 months ago

A year on, Surfside remembers 98 victims of condo collapse

Associated Press  

SURFSIDE, Fla. — A year ago in the middle of the night, a 12-story oceanfront condo building in Surfside, Florida, came down with a thunderous roar, leaving a giant pile of rubble and claiming 98 lives — one of the deadliest structure collapses in U.S. history. “We stand by you today and always,” Biden said during comments briefly interrupted by …

Arrests made in Surfside condo collapse victim ID thefts
3 years, 3 months ago

Arrests made in Surfside condo collapse victim ID thefts

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Recovery effort at collapsed building could end soon
3 years, 5 months ago

Recovery effort at collapsed building could end soon

Associated Press  

SURFSIDE, Fla. — Efforts to recover human remains from the debris of a South Florida condo building are nearing an end. Miami-Dade police identified six more victims of last month’s Surfside condo collapse on Thursday, meaning that 92 of the 97 confirmed dead have been identified. County officials have accounted for at least 240 people connected to the building, with …

Florida Condo Deaths Climb To 36 As Officials Try To Pinpoint The Number Of Missing
3 years, 5 months ago

Florida Condo Deaths Climb To 36 As Officials Try To Pinpoint The Number Of Missing

NPR  

Florida Condo Deaths Climb To 36 As Officials Try To Pinpoint The Number Of Missing Enlarge this image toggle caption Saul Martinez/Getty Images Saul Martinez/Getty Images Crews searching the building collapse site in Surfside, Fla., have discovered four more victims since Tuesday morning, bringing the death toll to 36, according to local officials at an afternoon press conference. There's uncertainty …

Residents Of Champlain Towers South Lose Their Homes In Demolition
3 years, 5 months ago

Residents Of Champlain Towers South Lose Their Homes In Demolition

NPR  

Residents Of Champlain Towers South Lose Their Homes In Demolition NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Charles Burkett, the mayor of Surfside, Fla., about developments in the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse as Tropical Storm Elsa heads for the region. FADEL: So in Brian Mann's reporting just now, we heard Florida Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz speak of further sadness and sorrow. …

Surfside Collapse Survivors Escaped With Their Lives, But Little Else
3 years, 5 months ago

Surfside Collapse Survivors Escaped With Their Lives, But Little Else

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING SURFSIDE, Fla. — Susana Alvarez fled her home on the 10th floor of Champlain Towers South, escaping with her life and almost nothing else. “I don’t have anything,” said the 62-year-old survivor of the condominium building collapse just outside Miami. “I lost everything,” Alvarez said, “and it doesn’t mean anything to me.” Still, friends and even complete …

Inquiries Into What Went Wrong In Surfside Could Take Years To Complete
3 years, 5 months ago

Inquiries Into What Went Wrong In Surfside Could Take Years To Complete

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Inquiries Into What Went Wrong In Surfside Could Take Years To Complete Enlarge this image toggle caption Lynne Sladky/AP Lynne Sladky/AP Researchers from a government agency that investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center on 9/11 are already on-site at Surfside, Fla. A team from NIST, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, is in the preliminary stages of …

Number Of People Missing Rises To 159 In Surfside Condo Building Collapse
3 years, 6 months ago

Number Of People Missing Rises To 159 In Surfside Condo Building Collapse

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Number Of People Missing Rises To 159 In Surfside Condo Building Collapse Enlarge this image toggle caption Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP via Getty Images Eva Marie Uzcategui/AFP via Getty Images There are now 159 people unaccounted for in the partial building collapse in Surfside, Fla., Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Friday — a rise from 99 people a day …

Photos: In The Rubble Where A Surfside Tower Stood, A Grim Search For Survivors
3 years, 6 months ago

Photos: In The Rubble Where A Surfside Tower Stood, A Grim Search For Survivors

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Photos: In The Rubble Where A Surfside Tower Stood, A Grim Search For Survivors Enlarge this image toggle caption Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images Chandan Khanna/AFP via Getty Images At about 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning, residents of the South Florida town of Surfside awoke to a terrible sound: an entire wing of a condo building — and the lives of …

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