Miami Weighs When to End Search for Florida Condo Survivors Emily Cochrane © Scott McIntyre for The New York Times Visiting a makeshift memorial near the site of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., this week. Officials have asked for prayers and miracles.
SURFSIDE, Fla. Even as officials and rescue workers pledge hope, however slim, that life could be found within the voids of the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condominium complex near Miami, the language around the tragedy has subtly begun to shift into the past tense.
Mourners paying their respects at makeshift memorials near the cordoned-off site have begun to speak of the lost, while local and federal officials are publicly asking for, as Gov. Ron DeSantis said this week, a little bit of luck, prayers and some miracles.
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