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By Bill Galluccio Photo: Getty Images Authorities announced that the search, rescue, and recovery operation at the site of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building has come to an end. Firefighters and recovery teams departed the area on Friday (July 23) and were saluted during a procession around the building. First responders recovered and identified the remains of 97 people who died in the collapse on June 24. Only one person remains unaccounted for. "Providing closure to familie...

By Bill Galluccio Photo: Getty Images Authorities announced that the search, rescue, and recovery operation at the site of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building has come to an end. Firefighters and recovery teams departed the area on Friday (July 23) and were saluted during a procession around the building. First responders recovered and identified the remains of 97 people who died in the collapse on June 24. Only one person remains unaccounted for. "Providing closure to familie...

Search operations end at Florida building collapse site ​ By IANS | ​ 0 Views Florida building collapse toll reaches 36 (Ld). Image Source: IANS News Miami, July 24 : Search operations to locate more bodies have officially ended almost one month after the 12-storey residential building partially collapsed in Surfside, a beachside town in Florida, authorities said. The overall death toll stood at 97 people, while at least one more person believed missing was yet to be identified, reports X...

Reply Lightning star center Nikita Kurcherov displays the Stanley Cup to a cheering crowd in Tampa. (City of Tampa) FLORIDA — Its been a week of highs and lows with some light moments in between. Highs included the Lightnings gala boat parade following their Stanley Cup win and a Tampa doctors baseball collection that sold for a record $21.5 million. It was a low moment for the Florida Task Force 3 from Tampa Bay as members returned home after finding no one alive at Surfside. Equally dist...

Couple changed travel plans to Uruguay before dying in Surfside building collapse Published:  Couple changes travel plans before dying in Surfside building collapse SURFSIDE, Fla. – Bernardo Camou Font and his sister María Inés Camou Font said a change of travel plans caused their 64-year-old sister to die. She was scheduled to return to Montevideo, Uruguay before a section of the 12-story Champlain Towers South collapsed in Miami-Dade County’s town of Surfside. Search crews digging th...

Jul 14, 2021 / 07:59 PM EST INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Testing found several Indiana Task Force 1 members returning home from the Florida condo collapse have contracted the coronavirus, a spokeswoman for the group said Wednesday night. Indiana’s top search-and-rescue team said earlier Wednesday on Twitter that it’d received a send-off from Miami-Dade Fire Rescue before leaving Surfside, Florida. They’d departed about 1 p.m. Wednesday. Just after 7 p.m. Wednesday, spokeswoman Rita Reith of t...

Surfside building collapse: Victims’ relatives react to judge allowing process to sell property Published:  Updated:  Victims relatives react to approval of Surfside collapse site sale SURFSIDE, Fla. – Martin Lagesfeld is grieving the loss of his 26-year-old sister and his 28-year-old brother-in-law. Crews recovered their remains a week ago. On Wednesday, he was in disbelief when he learned a judge approved the sale of the property where so many perished. Nicole Lagesfeld and Luis Sadovn...

Reply The Tampa Bay team was among nearly 400 members of eight Florida task force teams deployed to the Surfside disaster. (Hillsborough County Fire Rescue) The task force members methodically removed buckets full of debris from the piles and used jack hammers and concrete saws to break up larger pieces of concrete. (Hillsborough County Fire Rescue) The task force members methodically removed buckets full of debris from the piles and used jack hammers and concrete saws to break up larger piece...

Surfside search crew member: Im also emotionally digging for more strength CNN 11 hrs ago © Broward Sheriffs Office/Facebook Notte and her search and rescue partner, Dig. Baby pictures. Toys. Photo albums. Passports. These are just a few of the items found by the search teams at the site of the collapsed Surfside, Florida, condo building that drove home the immensity of what they were doing, one crew member said. The crews at the site work 12-hour shifts, many sleeping in tents nearby inst...

Published Saturday, July 10, 2021 3:51PM EDT The death toll from the Surfside, Florida, condo tower collapse rose to 86 on Saturday as recovery efforts were briefly halted after a lighting strike, officials said. Search teams have been recovering victims more quickly now that a portion of the tower that remained standing was demolished and is no longer a threat to collapse, according to Florida Fire Marshall and Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis. On Monday, a day after th...