Locals send concerns about building inspections to area municipalities Author: Jennifer Titus, Lauren Powell Published: 4:29 PM EDT June 29, 2021 Updated: 6:21 PM EDT June 29, 2021
Concerns about the June 24 condo building collapse in Surfside are rippling back to the Tampa Bay area for some people living high above ground.
10 Investigates obtained new emails from people living in the Bay area who are worried and searching for answers.
“Here we are day 6 and search and rescue continues,” said Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava in a morning news conference Tuesday.
The mayor says the Surfside site where a condo building collapsed Thursday is still classified as a rescue operation.
By Christina Maxouris, CNN
Magaly “Maggie” Ramsey said she didn’t get to hold her father or say her final goodbyes before he died from Covid-19 in August.
Now, she fears she may have also lost the chance to say goodbye to her mother, who is one of the dozens missing in the wake of the deadly South Florida condominium collapse.
“We’re all praying, primarily for the same things,” Ramsey told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday. “My faith is that, whether she’s here or she’s not, she’s in God’s grace and so that keeps me going.”
A Miami rabbi who is providing spiritual support to grieving families near the Surfside, Florida, disaster site estimated that at least 50 Jewish people and perhaps many more are missing after Thursday’s collapse of the condominium tower.
Rabbi Julie Jacobs
Rabbi Julie Jacobs leads Beth David Congregation, an unaffiliated synagogue in Miami where Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava is a member. Jacobs is part of a rotation of rabbis representing the spectrum of Jewish practice – who are available 24/7 at the center officials have set up for relatives of the 156 people who remain missing.
Jacobs said she is heartened by how the Jewish response to the crisis has brought clergy and other volunteers together across denominations.
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(Update: Adjusts death toll/missing figures, changes lede, headline, minor edits)
Miami, US, Jun 29 (EFE).- The death toll in the collapse of a 12-story apartment building in Surfside, Florida, rose to 12 Tuesday with the discovery of another body in the ruins, and as the number of people listed as missing dropped to 149.
In the first press conference of the day, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said to the despair of the families and friends of the missing that Monday’s figures had not changed, but on Tuesday afternoon she reported a new confirmed fatality.
Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said on Tuesday that relatives and friends of the missing have been expressing anger and “frustration” as they wait for the seemingly ever-more-unlikely finding of their loved ones alive amid the ruins.