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A renowned 80 person unit in Miami-Dade, Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1, has been leading the delicate, precarious search for survivors in the ruins of a collapsed Surfside, Fla., condominium.

No survivors were found Friday, and the number of people unaccounted for rose to more than 150. Their families were increasingly losing hope.

Crews were attacking the waterfront building from above and below to try to save any of the 159 people who remained missing and unaccounted for on Friday.

Antonio Olivo, Derek Hawkins, Meryl Kornfield and Joshua Partlow13:54, Jun 26 2021 Hundreds of search-and-rescue workers wielding diamond-tipped drills and sonar scanners probed a smouldering mountain of wreckage on Friday afternoon (Saturday morning in NZ), during the second full day of the painstaking effort to find signs of life inside a collapsed 12-storey condominium tower near Miami Beach. Working in shifts amid intermittent sun and torrential rain, crews used heavy machinery to delicate...

A renowned 80 person unit in Miami-Dade, Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1, has been leading the delicate, precarious search for survivors in the ruins of a collapsed Surfside, Fla., condominium.

Michael Saxe helped search for survivors in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack and says in Surfside, it's a race against the clock.

A 21-year-old man was charged Tuesday after he broke into and stole from more than nine vehicles parked in hotel lots in Boynton Beach on May 11.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Marijke Browning still remembers the calm breath of Hurricane Andrew as its eye moved over her Homestead home nearly 30 years ago.

In the last 30 years, nearly 500 people in Florida have lost their lives because of hurricanes and tropical storms. Some like 1992's Hurricane Andrew bring back memories of why Floridians should be prepared, and careful, before, during and after the storm.

Escaped TDOC prisoners captured by U.S. Marshals Inmate Robert Lee Brown (Source: TN Department of Correction) By WMC Action News 5 Staff | December 13, 2020 at 8:53 PM CST - Updated December 13 at 8:54 PM Brown is serving 18 years for aggravated rape and Osteen is serving 8 years for burglary. Christopher Osteen (Source: TN Department of Correction) Earlier today, the U.S. Marshals Florida/Caribbean Task Force, in conjunction with partnering state and local agencies, captured Brown i...