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911 recordings show panic, disbelief when Florida condo fell
A worker waits to load his truck with debris from the rubble of the Champlain Towers South building, as removal and recovery work continues at the site of the partially collapsed condo building, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
911 recordings show panic, disbelief when Florida condo collapsed
Curt Anderson, Freida Frisaro And Lynne Sladky
Associated Press
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A worker waits to load his truck with debris from the rubble of the Champlain Towers South building, as removal and recovery work continues at the site of the partially collapsed condo building, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, in Surfside, Fla. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Recordings of 911 calls after an oceanfront Florida condominium building collapsed in the middle of the night show 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 Wednesday from the June 24 collapse of Champlain Towers South. The names of the callers were not released.
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911 recording show panic, disbelief when Florida condo fell Can somebody help me get out, please? If the building comes down, it will come down on my head.
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In this aerial image search and rescue workers work the site of an oceanfront condo building that partially collapsed, in Surfside, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2021. Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava says rescue officials are continuing to search Friday and there s still hope of finding survivors in the rubble more than 24 hours after the building collapsed. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Can somebody help me get out, please? If the building comes down, it will come down on my head.
LISTEN: 911 calls from Florida condo collapse reveal confusion and chaos as building came down Share Updated: 4:05 AM EDT Jul 15, 2021 By CURT ANDERSON, FREIDA FRISARO and LYNNE SLADKY, Associated Press
LISTEN: 911 calls from Florida condo collapse reveal confusion and chaos as building came down Share Updated: 4:05 AM EDT Jul 15, 2021
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Show Transcript We can t see a thing. It s all smoke here, Okay. I heard, I heard Miami Beach say something about a bridge collapse. Yeah. A bridge collapsed, building collapse. He s asked where I m going that way. You got to open up. I looked outside and I saw the patient Castillo area started sinking down. What started thinking the patio area, the poorer areas in poorer areas of the sinking down building just went to the sink hole. So there will be many, many people there.