Death toll rises to 18 in Surfside condo collapse
The number of deaths following the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, has grown to 18, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said this evening during a news conference. I m pained to tell you we found two additional bodies in the rubble, which brings our total count to 18 18 fatalities. It is also with great sorrow, real pain, that I have to share with you that two of these were children. Aged 4 and 10. Any loss of life, especially given the unexpected, unprecedented nature of this event is a tragedy, but the loss of our children is too great to bear, she said.
Death toll in Florida building collapse rises to 12 with 149 missing 30 Jun 2021 / 08:49 H. Photos and flowers hang in a fence at a memorial site created by neighbors in front of a partially collapsed residential building as the emergency crews continue search and rescue operations for survivors, in Surfside, near Miami Beach, Florida, U.S. June 29, 2021. – Reuters
SURFSIDE, FLORIDA: Another body was recovered on Tuesday from the ruins of a Florida condominium tower, the mayor said, raising the death toll in the collapse to at least 12 with 149 people still listed as missing.
The latest casualty of the disaster, which could ultimately rank as the worst accidental building collapse in U.S. history, was not immediately identified by Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava during an afternoon news conference.
Miami Building Collapse Death Toll Rises to 18 After Finding 2 Children - Mayor Thu 01st July 2021 | 04:10 AM
WASHINGTON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 01st July, 2021) The death toll in the 12-story Surfside condo collapse has risen to 18 after two bodies were found in the rubble, ages four and ten, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters. Since our last briefing, I am very pained to tell you we found two additional bodies in the rubble, which brings our total count to 18, Cava said on Wednesday evening. It is also with great sorrow, a real pain, that I have to share with you that the two of these [bodies] were children, age four and ten.
I knew I will be safe : Neighbors carried 88-year-old survivor of Florida condo collapse to safety Updated: 10:22 AM EDT Jun 30, 2021 Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Share Updated: 10:22 AM EDT Jun 30, 2021
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Show Transcript who we think that something like this Will happen at 1:30 AM, in your life, in my old age that I will see something so horrible like this 88 year old Esther Garfinkel was on the fifth floor, my whole apartment. Shake my bed. I was sleeping. Shake I have my my my nightgown. I put a house called alone, unaware of what happened wearing only slippers. She headed down the stairwell as slowly as a shocked 88 year old could and when she reached the garage help appeared from behind, it s a group from the 11th floor neighbors who would carry her out safely. They pushed me out and we got into water and in front of it was a lot of debris and we saw a home. They picked me up carrying me on my, his back outside and I saw the sky. I