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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Officials Say They Are Ending The Search For Survivors In The Surfside Condo Collapse
Updated July 7, 2021 at 6:34 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. 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.
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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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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Officials called off the rescue operation at the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse Wednesday, 14 days into a grueling but futile search for survivors of the disaster that drew volunteers from all over the country and the world to Surfside, Florida.
Until the transition from search-and-rescue operations to search-and-recovery, many people in a Jewish community that still counts dozens among the missing still hoped and prayed for a miracle.
“Just based on the facts, there’s zero chance of survival,” Assistant Chief Ray Jadallah of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue told families of the missing in a private briefing, the New York Times reported.