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View Comments The search for bodies at the site of the Surfside, Florida condo collapse has come to an end, with firefighters and search crews recognized at a ceremony on Friday. The June 24 collapse killed 97 people — 96 bodies were pulled from the debris and one died at a hospital after being removed — and one person who is missing has still not been identified among the remains. Officials said there were no more bodies found in the rubble, but investigators are continuing to sift through the debris where it is now housed in separate locations. Aside from the initial hours of searchin...

Search and rescue crews saluted as Surfside condo collapse efforts come to an end Search and rescue personnel listen to remarks during a send off by members of the Surfside community for the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) National Rescue Union in Surfside, Florida. OAN Newsroom UPDATED 5:16 PM PT – Friday, July 23, 2021 Fire trucks offered a water salute as search and rescue teams left the site of the devastating condo collapse in Surfside, Florida. The month-long recovery effort came to an end on Friday and the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s Urban Search and Rescue Team, Florida Task Force One...

By Bill Galluccio Photo: Getty Images As recovery efforts at the site of the collapsed condo building in Miami near its third week, the death toll has risen to 94. Another 22 people remain unaccounted for as crews continue to dig through the rubble, searching for more victims. Authorities said they have identified 83 victims notified the families of 81 of the deceased. Three of those victims who were pulled from the rubble last week were identified as children under the age of 10. Miami-Dade County Mayor  Daniella Levine Cava praised the crews that have been working around the clock to ...

Seven Jacksonville firefighters who volunteered to help search a collapsed South Florida condominium have been diagnosed with COVID-19, according to Fire and Rescue Department officials. They have returned home, as have the rest of the 80-person team sent a week ago to help in the massive search effort for the victims of the fallen Champlain Towers South in Surfside. "We recognized it early, tested everybody and we separated anybody who is positive and sent them home early," Capt. Eric Prosswimmer said. No one knows how the unidentified firefighters, who joined about 350 from across the�...

Surfside Condo Demolished 10 Days After Collapse, 121 Still Missing On 7/4/21 at 10:56 PM EDT The remaining structure of a partially collapsed condominium building in Surfside, Florida, was demolished late Sunday night, just 10 days after the initial disaster and amid a grueling effort to search for more than 120 missing residents. The upright portion of the Champlain Towers South building was intricately filled with detonated charges to bring the building down just after 10:30 p.m. ET on Independence Day. This was after parts of the building first collapsed in the middle of the night on June...