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Death Toll Rises to 64 as Workers at Florida Condo Turn to Recovery Last Updated July 8, 2021, 10:53 p.m. ETJuly 8, 2021, 10:53 p.m. ET Two weeks after the building in Surfside, Fla., collapsed, crews have abandoned the search for survivors. Seventy-six people are still classified as potentially missing. Here’s what you need to know: -0:00 Officials Will End Search Efforts After Condominium Collapse Officials in Florida said after two weeks of searching for victims they would shift their focus to recovery efforts after assessing that no survivors would be found. It is with deep, 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. It’s now been exactly two weeks since Champlain Towers South collapsed, and over the last 14 days you all know that our search and rescue teams from our local community, from around Florida, from around the co ....
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-0:00 Officials Will End Search Efforts After Condominium Collapse Officials in Florida said after two weeks of searching for victims they would shift their focus to recovery efforts after assessing that no survivors would be found. It is with deep, 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. It’s now been exactly two weeks since Champlain Towers South collapsed, and over the last 14 days you all know that our search and rescue teams from our local community, from around Florida, from around the country and in fact, around the world have been digging through this collapse. They’ve used every possible strategy and every piece of technology available to them. And through these efforts, we have recovered eight more victims, so the total number of confirmed deaths is now at 54. 33 of those victims have been identified, and 33 next-of-kin notifications ....
“We’ve been exhausting every effort,” he said, “and that’s where we are right now.” On Wednesday afternoon, Chief Jadallah told families that the operation would transition from search and rescue to search and recovery. He said search teams from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Israel were in agreement with the decision. Chief Jadallah later told reporters that engineering factors played a role in making the decision, including that the building collapse was like a “pancake,” which he said, “gives you the lowest probability of survivability.” “We need to bring closure,” Chief Jadallah said. At one point in the meeting, a video of which was viewed by The New York Times, a woman thanked the officials for their work. The room erupted in applause. ....
Officials called off the rescue operation at the site of the Champlain Towers South collapse Wednesday, 14 days into a grueling but futile search for survivors of the disaster that drew volunteers from all over the country and the world to Surfside, Florida. Until the transition from search-and-rescue operations to search-and-recovery, many people in a Jewish community that still counts dozens among the missing still hoped and prayed for a miracle. “Just based on the facts, there’s zero chance of survival,” Assistant Chief Ray Jadallah of Miami-Dade Fire Rescue told families of the missing in a private briefing, the New York Times reported. ....