Recordings of emergency calls after an oceanfront Florida apartment building collapsed in the middle of the night have revealed disbelief, panic and confusion as people tried to comprehend the disaster.
“Oh my God! The whole building collapsed!” one caller said to a dispatcher at the Miami-Dade Police Department, which released the recordings on Wednesday from the June 24 collapse of Champlain Towers South. The names of the callers were not released.
“We’ve got to get out. Hurry up, hurry up. There’s a big explosion,” a second caller said. “There’s a lot of smoke. I can’t see anything. We’ve got to go. I can’t see nothing but smoke.”