By Al Lewis
Jul 7, 2021
Officials are turning the Surfside condo collapse operation into a recovery mission. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced this afternoon they are transitioning away from search and rescue efforts. She also said eight more bodies have been recovered, bringing the total to 54 dead. Another 86 people are still potentially unaccounted for. The transition will take place tonight.
By Al Lewis
Jul 7, 2021
Officials are turning the Surfside condo collapse operation into a recovery mission. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced this afternoon they are transitioning away from search and rescue efforts. She also said eight more bodies have been recovered, bringing the total to 54 dead. Another 86 people are still potentially unaccounted for. The transition will take place tonight.
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Search called off for survivors of Florida condo tower collapse
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told a briefing that in addition to the 46 confirmed dead, 94 others who may have been inside the building in Surfside when it partially collapsed on June 24 were still unaccounted for.
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Rescue workers are seen after the managed demolition of the remaining part of Champlain Towers South complex as search-and-rescue efforts continue in Surfside, Fla., July 6, 2021. REUTERS / Marco Bello
SURFSIDE, Fla., July 7 (Reuters) - South Florida officials on Wednesday called off the search for survivors of a June condominium tower collapse, saying there was no longer any hope of pulling someone alive from the ruins of the flattened building.
By Al Lewis
Jul 7, 2021
Officials are turning the Surfside condo collapse operation into a recovery mission. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced this afternoon they are transitioning away from search and rescue efforts. She also said eight more bodies have been recovered, bringing the total to 54 dead. Another 86 people are still potentially unaccounted for. The transition will take place tonight.
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A search and rescue team member moves through the rubble of the Champlain Towers South condominium on Jul 7, 2021. (Photo: Al Diaz/Miami Herald via AP)
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SURFSIDE, Florida: Emergency workers gave up on Wednesday (Jul 7) on any hope of finding survivors in the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium building and shifted their efforts to recovering more remains after authorities concluded that there was “no chance of life .
The announcement followed increasingly sombre reports from emergency officials, who said they sought to prepare families for the worst.