‘We Need a Definitive Explanation’ on Surfside Building Collapse: Florida Governor
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that a “definitive explanation” is needed in a timely manner as to why a 12-story condo building partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida, amid search and rescue efforts in the aftermath of the deadly incident.
At a press conference in Surfside, a small suburb north of Miami Beach, the Republican governor said that he and Democrat Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of Miami-Dade County both agree there needs to be “a definitive explanation for how this could have happened.”
“And that’s an explanation that needs to be an accurate explanation,” DeSantis said of the partially-collapsed Champlain Towers South building. “It’s an explanation that we don’t want to get wrong, obviously, but at the same time I do think it’s important that it’s timely because you have a lot of families here, you have families that lost loved ones in this building co
Surfside, Florida - An intense search and rescue effort will continue through the night after part of a 12-story residential building collapsed early Thursday in the South Florida town of Surfside, killing at least one and leaving almost 100 people unaccounted for.
About 55 of the 136 units at Champlain Towers South collapsed around 1:30 a.m., officials said [.]
At least 99 people were unaccounted for as of Thursday afternoon, according to Miami-Dade Police spokesperson Alvaro Zabaleta.
At least one person died because of the collapse, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. A total of 102 people have been accounted for, she said. The mayor said the cause of the collapse was not known.Two people have been pulled from the rubble, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Assistant Chief Ray Jadallah said, without addressing their medical conditions [..]
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SURFSIDE, FLORIDA - JUNE 25: Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors on June 25, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. According to reports, after the collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 24, over one hundred people have been reported as missing. Search-and-rescue efforts continue with crews from across Miami-Dade and Broward counties. | GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP
Several Latin Americans, some who reportedly travelled to get vaccinated, are among the missing after an apartment building collapsed in the Miami area earlier this week.
Nine Argentines, six Paraguayans and six Venezuelans were in the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida,, according to the foreign ministries of their countries. Colombia reported missing citizens without providing an official figure. The
The death toll from Thursday's partial collapse of a South Florida residential building has risen to four and the number of unaccounted increased by the dozens, officials said Friday morning, as a painstaking search continued for survivors in the rubble.
Pictured: Australian couple who were in Miami apartment building when it collapsed without warning - as desperate family fear time is running out
Miami apartment building in the community of Surfside collapsed 48 hours ago with 4 dead and 159 missing
The family of two missing Australians understood to have been in the building are praying for a miracle
Tzvi and Itty Ainsworth, members of the Jewish community from Melbourne, had an apartment on 11th floor
Rescuers are combing the building site for survivors with one young boy already pulled alive from the rubble