Miami-Dade State Attorney
Katherine Fernandez Rundle said that she is planning to convene a grand jury to investigate last week s partial collapse of Champlain Towers South near Miami Beach. My office has a long tradition of presenting more than just criminal cases to the Grand Jury, Rundle said in a statement. Our Grand Juries have also served as a cross-section of the community to evaluate matters of health and public safety. I plan to request that our Grand Jury look at what steps we can take to safeguard our residents without jeopardizing any scientific, public safety, or potential criminal investigations, the statement continued.
Death toll rises to 16 in Florida condo collapse July 01 2021 12:03 AM RELATED STORIES
(File photo) Nearly half of the 40-year-old Champlain Towers South condo to crumple as residents slept in the early hours of last Thursday.
Text Size: Reuters/ Surfside, Florida Another four bodies were found overnight in the shattered ruins of a collapsed Miami-area condominium tower, the mayor of Miami-Dade County said yesterday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 16 nearly a week after the building fell.
Nobody has been pulled alive from the mounds of pulverised concrete, splintered lumber and twisted metal since the early hours of the disaster, with 147 people still unaccounted for.
SURFSIDE, Fla. – The bodies of two children were found in the rubble of the collapsed condo building outside Miami on Wednesday, raising the death toll in the disaster to 18.
The children were 4 and 10 years old, said Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who provided the update at an afternoon news conference. The number of missing people is now 145. Any loss of life, especially given the nature of this unexpected, unprecedented event, is a tragedy, Levine Cava said. But the loss of our children is too great to bear.
Earlier in the day, Levine Cava has said four additional victims had been identified, at the time bringing the total to 16. Search officials vowed to press on with the rescue effort around the clock despite the possibility of tropical storms approaching the area.
Collapsed Miami condo s board hires Washington DC-based crisis management firm that claims it can fix the impossible as questions mount over why building collapsed and death toll hits 18
The Champlain Towers South Condominium Association has hired DC-based crisis management firm Levick, which boasts it can fix the impossible
Levick previously represented a Catholic diocese over sex abuse allegations, and clients connected to the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Maxwell Marcucci, a vice president at Levick, has been assigned to the case
He must contend with a flurry of media requests over last Thursday s collapse, and claims that warnings the building s structure was damaged was ignored
Florida condo collapse death toll rises to 18 after 2 children found in rubble
By Kelly Hayes
Two of deaths reported on Wednesday afternoon were children.
Families were informed at a morning briefing that rescuers found the bodies on Tuesday night during the ongoing search at the site. Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah said relatives had not yet been notified.
In addition to the six bodies, crews also found other human remains. Rescuers were able to build a ramp for a crane to reach areas at the top of the pile they had not been able to access before, Jadallah said.