Family finds grandmother s photos, birthday card among flying debris from collapsed Florida condo building
By Joshua Goodman
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SURFSIDE, Fla. - When a father and son rushed to the site where a Florida condominium tower had collapsed, they hoped for any sign that their family s 92-year-old matriarch, Hilda Noriega, had somehow survived.
Among the flying debris, they stumbled across mementos that bore witness to Noriega s life on the sixth floor of the 12-story building known as Champlain Towers South: an old picture of her with her late husband and their infant son, and a birthday card that friends from her prayer group sent two weeks earlier with the acronym ESM, Spanish for hand-delivered, scrawled across the yellow envelope with a butterfly etching.
Updated: 6:51 AM CDT Jun 27, 2021 By JOSHUA GOODMAN and RUSS BYNUM Associated Press Video above: View from air shows destruction at condo collapseWhen Mike Noriega heard that part of the condominium tower where his grandmother lived had collapsed, he rushed with his father to the scene. They arrived at a nightmarish 30-foot pile of pancaked concrete and mangled metal, the remains of her 12-story building and no sign of 92-year-old Hilda Noriega.But among the flying debris, they stumbled across mementos that bore witness to Hilda s life on the sixth floor in Champlain Towers South: an old picture of her with her late husband and their infant son, and a birthday card that friends from her prayer group sent two weeks earlier with the acronym “ESM,” Spanish for “hand-delivered,” scrawled across the yellow envelope with a butterfly etching.“There was a message in the mess of all this,” Noriega said. “It means not to give up hope. To have faith.”Days aft
Florida condo collapse: 9 dead as families privately visit disaster area
By Megan Ziegler
Florida officials and authorities give condo collapse update
Florida officials and authorities gave a news conference Sunday evening regarding an update on the deadly condo collapse in Surfside.
As the death toll from the collapsed condominium in Surfside, Florida rose Sunday to nine, relatives were growing increasingly desperate for news and worried about the slow progress and dwindling hopes.
No one has been pulled alive from the pile since hours after the collapse of the Champlain Towers South building Thursday morning. Some family members were taken by bus Sunday to a location near the site after relatives frustrated with the pace of rescue efforts demanded to visit the scene.
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SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) The death toll from the collapse of a Florida beachfront condo building has risen to nine as search-and-rescue efforts continue, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Sunday.
One person died in the hospital, and workers pulled four more bodies from the wreckage, the mayor said.
Scores of rescue workers remained on the massive pile of rubble, working to find survivors among the more than 150 people who remain unaccounted for. Four of the dead have been identified and next of kin notified, the mayor said.
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