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The workers are firefighters from a Florida rescue team outside Miami-Dade County who have been helping with the search. Miami-Dade Fire Chief Alan Cominsky made the announcement Saturday morning and also said that contact tracing is being done to make sure it hasn’t spread to anyone else. "We do have our medical procedures in place and unfortunately this is another challenge, but something that we been dealing with for over the past year in regards to the medical field and our first responders, responding and managing throughout covid," Cominsky said. "We remain within that protocol in thi...

Sunday, 04 Jul 2021 08:01 AM MYT Search and Rescue personnel work after the partial collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 24, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. — Getty Images via AFP Follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates. SURFSIDE, July 4 — Searchers recovered two more bodies to bring the death toll in the Florida apartment block collapse to 24, authorities said yesterday, as the search for victims paused in the afternoon so demolition crews could prepare to bring down the part of the building still standing. The razi...

After Lauren Miller lost her father in January to COVID-19, her longtime friend Jay Kleiman advised her not to wallow in grief and to seek counselling to ease her pain. Now she finds herself grieving again only this time for Kleiman, one of scores of people believed to be underneath the rubble of a 12-story condominium tower in Florida that collapsed over a week ago, killing at least 24. I'm sure he'd tell me: It's OK to be sad this is very, very sad but you have to move forward, and you have to be strong,' Miller said, her voice cracking.

First Posted: Jul 03, 2021 11:31 PM EDT The search and rescue operations in the Florida condo collapse were once again suspended, ahead of the demolition plans and the nearing of tropical storm "Elsa" in the state. The suspension was confirmed by Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava during an evening press conference on Saturday, according to a report from New York Post. Florida Condo Collapse: Authorities Prepare for the Demolition Despite the announcement of the suspension, Levine Cava noted that the schedule for the demolition of the remaining parts of the Florida building that collapsed...

The search-and-rescue mission was suspended in the afternoon as demolition crews began the precarious business of boring holes into the concrete of the still-standing portion of the Champlain Towers South tower in Surfside, Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah told family members. Jadallah said the suspension was a necessary safety measure because the drilling of holes to hold the explosives for the demolition could have caused the unstable structure to fail. If that were to happen, he said, "It's just going to collapse without warning." But in a video stream of Jadallah's briefing ...