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One year after the condo tower collapse in Surfside, Florida, condo residents are faced with a new state mandate aimed at increasing safety.

SURFSIDE, Fla. –  The bodies of two children were found in the rubble of the collapsed condo building outside Miami on Wednesday, raising the death toll in the disaster to 18. The children were 4 and 10 years old, said Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who provided the update at an afternoon news conference. The number of missing people is now 145. "Any loss of life, especially given the nature of this unexpected, unprecedented event, is a tragedy,'' Levine Cava said. "But the loss of our children is too great to bear." Earlier in the day, Levine Cava has said four additional...

Kyle Bagenstose and Romina Ruiz-Goiriena A letter sent in April from the president of the Champlain Towers South Condominium Association said that damage to the doomed building’s basement garage had “gotten significantly worse” since an inspection about two and a half years earlier and that deterioration of the building’s concrete was “accelerating.” The letter suggested that millions of dollars in needed repairs had been a subject of frustration among residents. The letter offers a glimpse into the events leading up to the building's collapse last week in Surfside, Florida, that ...

Families of 149 missing in condo collapse grow weary waiting for answers; ex-Surfside official who gave building OK placed on leave Christine Fernando, Jesse Mendoza and Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY © Andrew West, The News-Press via USA TODAY NETWORK Rescuers continue to search through the rubble of the Champlain Towers south condo collapse in Surfside, Fla. on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. SURFSIDE, Fla. – Six days after a condo building outside Miami collapsed, families of the 149 missing people are growing weary as they desperately wait for answers. The death toll rose to 12,...

Time. Weather. Conditions. The extremely difficult task of identifying Miami condo victims. Kevin McCoy and Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY Florida condo collapse: Search and rescue continues in Surfside Replay Video UP NEXT Emergency crews at the site of a collapsed South Florida condo aren't just battling summer weather, smoldering fire and dangerous debris in their race to find 149 unaccounted-for victims. They're fighting time, heat, water and other factors that will make it harder to identify the dead. The longer the search takes, the more likely it is that human remains wi...