Entire Families Were Lost in the Surfside Collapse. Here Is One of Their Stories.
Because the disaster happened in the middle of the night, many parents, children, grandparents and siblings were killed together.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue workers placed a banner at a memorial on Wednesday.Credit.Joe Raedle/Getty Images
July 8, 2021, 7:48 p.m. ET
MIAMI Just after dawn on that morning that now feels like forever ago, Annette Guara Hurst hurried to her computer. A high-rise condo building had collapsed in a Surfside, Fla., neighborhood familiar to her, and she needed to see the file where she keeps her family’s addresses. She scanned the list, looking for her youngest brother, praying that her gut was wrong.
Death toll from Surfside building collapse jumps to 78 with another 62 still missing
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Death toll from Surfside building collapse jumps to 78 with another 62 still missing
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