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Seven minutes elapsed between the initial rumblings and the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside. But a security guard didn’t know how to activate the building’s warning system.
Miami Herald Lourdes Losada mourns the loss of her college roommate, Maria Teresa Rovirosa, who is still missing, at the memorial wall for the victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside on Thursday, July 8, 2021. ‘She was just a great person. ... She would take what she had and give it to everybody,’ Losada said. The future and healing for the Surfside community. Did a murder and a mistaken identity lead to a wrongful conviction and life sentence? Plus, Miami’s 125th birthday — we’ll learn about some of the city’s most interesting, and lesser-known, history. On t...
Another call came in 12 seconds later “...We’re calling in a fire alarm for a business.” There’s no evidence at this point of a fire or explosion prior to collapse. But Gabriel Nir, a survivor who lived on the first floor of the building just above the underground garage told NBC 6 he heard and felt what he called “the first collapse.” “The first collapse happened. Me and my mom, my sister went out first collapse,” Nir said. “We see the collapse happening on the pool side and I saw a bunch of cars like going in, inside the car garage,” Nir said.
As condo crashed down, they escaped through smoke and ruin By KELLI KENNEDYJuly 3, 2021 GMT FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Alfredo Lopez and his wife Marian were asleep when the first thundering blast jolted them awake. Moments later, a second boom, much louder than the first, shook the bed on the sixth floor of their Miami apartment. Alfredo rushed to wake his 24-year-old son Michael, urging him to get dressed, before running to the balcony window. “All I could see was just white dust, very thick. I could barely see the balcony railing.” The lights cut out and the emergency alarm came on...
Shouts for help heard moments after condo collapse, while others barely escaped By Megan Ziegler Shouts heard moments after Florida condo collapsed Shouts for help could be heard just moments after part of the Champlain Towers South building collapsed on June 24, 2021. Credit: David Araujo via Storyful SURFSIDE, Fla. - Footage taken moments after part of a condominium building collapsed in Surfside, Florida last month captured people shouting for help. David Araujo began recording at the site shortly after the Champlain Towers South building collapsed on June 24. In his footage, people ca...