Surfside condo collapse exposes gaps in Florida s inspection process
Facade inspections are mandated every 5-years in about a dozen cities, none we found in Fla.
Following the devastating condo collapse in Surfside, questions have surfaced about Floridaâs lackluster high-rise inspection laws.
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At the site where Champlain Towers South once stood, a mountain of rubble remains a disastrous and heartbreaking reminder of loss, failures and questions.
Each day for the past three weeks, the county s Mayor, Daniella Levine Cava, has had the tragic task of announcing the number of new victims recovered from the collapse. On Tuesday, the total number of confirmed casualties had reached 95.
“It’s difficult,” Dean said, “Especially because we’re starting to put faces with names, when we gather belongings and we see the pictures, we see the loved ones and we see the family members that have had the opportunity to come to the pile and speak to them and put stories behind those individuals, there is a connection there, obviously not the same as the families, but we do feel it.”
The recovery teams uncover the family photos and mementos and jewelry, and then two teams of Miami-Dade Police detectives work day and night, sorting the personal items retrieved from the debris.
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Florida men say plan was to arrest, not kill, Haitiâs president
The chief of Haitiâs national police force doubts their story: âThey wanted to kill him. They knew what they were doing.â
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People look into the window of a police vehicle carrying the bodies of two people killed in a shootout with police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Thursday. Haitian National Police Chief Leon Charles said the two dead are suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse. [ JOSEPH ODELYN | AP ]
By Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald and Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald
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Suspects in assassination told police the plan was to arrest, not kill, Haiti’s president Jacqueline Charles, Kevin G. Hall, Miami Herald
The operation that led to Haitian President Jovenel Moïse’s middle-of-the-night assassination was in the planning for at least a month, and came together during meals around Port-au-Prince and at a home where most of the men accused of the slaying were staying, several people who interviewed some of the suspects told the Miami Herald.
“They probably were watching and waiting for the opportunity for them to do it,” said Investigative Judge Clément Noël, who was among the first to question the two Haitian-Americans among the 19 suspects detained so far.