Search and rescue crews saluted as Surfside condo collapse efforts come to an end
Search and rescue personnel listen to remarks during a send off by members of the Surfside community for the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) National Rescue Union in Surfside, Florida.
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Fire trucks offered a water salute as search and rescue teams left the site of the devastating condo collapse in Surfside, Florida. The month-long recovery effort came to an end on Friday and the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Urban Search and Rescue Team, Florida Task Force One and City of Miami Fire Department’s Florida Task Force Two departed from the Champlain Towers South with the death toll at 97.
The Search for Victims Comes To An End At the Florida Condo Collapse Site
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The search for victims in one of the deadliest building collapses in U.S. history has come to an end after four weeks. Firefighter crews have scoured the debris left on the site of the catastrophe without finding evidence of additional casualties.
Miami-Dade Police Det. Lee Cowart confirms that fire department search crews have vacated the site.
Officials had vowed to continue the search for people among roughly 11 tons of rubble that remained following the sudden destruction of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla., on June 24.
Elite task forces end their recovery mission at Florida condo collapse site
Task force members who spearheaded the response to the Champlain Towers disaster have returned home after weeks of work clearing the debris pile.
Photos of victims of the Champlain Towers South building collapse fill a memorial that was set up near the rescue site in Surfside, Fla., on Monday, June 28, 2021. (Courthouse News/Izzy Kapnick)
SURFSIDE, Fla. (CN) Two elite rescue teams on Friday ended their deployment at the site of the Surfside, Florida, building collapse after a month-long mission that recovered the remains of more 90 victims of the tragedy.
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The search for victims in one of the deadliest building collapses in U.S. history has come to an end after four weeks. Firefighter crews have scoured the debris left on the site of the catastrophe without finding evidence of additional casualties.
Miami-Dade Police Detective Lee Cowart confirmed that fire department search crews have vacated the site.
Officials had vowed to continue the search for people among roughly 11 tons of rubble that remained following the sudden destruction of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla., on June 24.
In all, 97 people have been confirmed dead a significant drop from initial estimates of possible casualties, which suggested as many as 159 had been killed. That figure fell as authorities identified remains or discovered people who turned out not to have been in the building at the time of the collapse.