Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Thursday that 76 people were still potentially unaccounted for
Published July 8, 2021 •
Updated 4 hours ago
What to Know
The Surfside condo collapse death toll rose to 64 Thursday after 10 more bodies were discovered, officials said
Another 76 people were still potentially unaccounted for, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said
The news comes as the painstaking search for survivors shifted to a recovery effort at midnight Wednesday
The bodies of ten more victims were recovered from the site of the Surfside condominium collapse, bringing the death toll to 64, officials said Thursday. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
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Updated July 7, 2021 at 7:49 PM ET
Fourteen days after the catastrophic collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla., officials have called off the search for survivors
, effective at midnight local time. Our top priority since Day 1 has been to do everything possible, everything humanly possible, and to explore every single portion of the collapsed grid in search of survivors, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a press conference Wednesday evening. At this point, we have truly exhausted every option available to us in the search and rescue mission.
No one had been pulled alive from the rubble since the early hours after the building partially crumbled on June 24. Rescue crews who by Wednesday had removed 7 million pounds of concrete and cement from the wreckage had said they would keep searching as long as there was a chance someone could be found.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Thursday that 76 people were still potentially unaccounted for
Published July 8, 2021 •
Updated 4 hours ago
What to Know
The Surfside condo collapse death toll rose to 64 Thursday after 10 more bodies were discovered, officials said
Another 76 people were still potentially unaccounted for, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said
The news comes as the painstaking search for survivors shifted to a recovery effort at midnight Wednesday
The bodies of ten more victims were recovered from the site of the Surfside condominium collapse, bringing the death toll to 64, officials said Thursday. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get the latest breaking news and local stories.
Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Thursday that 76 people were still potentially unaccounted for
Published July 8, 2021 •
Updated 5 hours ago
What to Know
The Surfside condo collapse death toll rose to 64 Thursday after 10 more bodies were discovered, officials said
Another 76 people were still potentially unaccounted for, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said
The news comes as the painstaking search for survivors shifted to a recovery effort at midnight Wednesday
The bodies of ten more victims were recovered from the site of the Surfside condominium collapse, bringing the death toll to 64, officials said Thursday.
Download our NBC 7 mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
Originally published on July 8, 2021 4:33 pm
Nine months before a massive section of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Fla., came showering down, an engineering firm called Morabito Consultants found severely deteriorated concrete throughout the building, including in load-bearing structures known as corbels.
According to a document acquired by NPR from an anonymous source, the company s probe, conducted between June and October 2020, found problems that appeared even more grave than those identified in an earlier 2018 study of the condo conducted by the same company.
The Maryland-based firm, hired by the condo association s board, is widely respected in the construction industry, in part for helping save another Florida condominium from collapse a decade earlier.