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By Bill Galluccio Photo: Getty Images As the search for survivors at the site of the collapsed condo building in Miami enters its second week, officials admit that the chance of finding people alive is growing smaller by the day. Workers were hoping to find pockets in the debris where a person could have survived, but so far have not had any luck finding survivors since the day of the collapse. "Unfortunately, we are not seeing anything positive," Miami-Dade County Fire Chief  Alan Cominsky said. Authorities have not said when they will officially end the rescue efforts but expect it to h...

Updated July 7, 2021 at 7:49 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 , effective at midnight local time. "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 miss...

A memorial for the Guara family is posted on a fence near the Champlain Towers South on July 6 in Surfside, Fla. Officials overseeing the search at the site of the Florida condominium collapse seem increasingly somber about the prospects for finding anyone alive. Carl Juste / AP SURFSIDE, Fla. — Rescue crews pulled 10 more bodies from a collapsed condo building Wednesday, and the emotional toll mounted as officials fought back tears and lamented the ordeal of exhausted families still awaiting word on missing loved ones. The 14th day of the search yielded the highest number of bodies fo...

Surfside building collapse latest: Search and rescue shifts to recovery mission Surfside officials announce rescue is now a recovery effort Replay Video UP NEXT The search and rescue efforts at the collapsed Surfside, Florida, apartment complex have shifted to a recovery effort as 86 people remain unaccounted for, officials said Wednesday. "It is with profound sadness that this afternoon I'm able to share that we made the extremely difficult decision to transition from operation search and rescue to recovery," Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a press briefing Wednesday...

46 Confirmed dead in US building collapse 1 minute read Miami, Jul 7 (EFE).- The number of confirmed deaths from the partial collapse of a 12-story residential building north of Miami Beach on June 24 has increased to 46, the Miami-Dade County mayor said Wednesday. “As the magnitude of this catastrophe continues to grow each and every day since the collapse, our community and the world are grieving with all of the families who are living through this unthinkable tragedy,” Daniella Levine Cava said. Ninety-four people remain unaccounted for, while authorities have been able to determine ...