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Rest of collapsed Florida condo tower demolished Doha Madani and Tim Stelloh © Provided by NBC News The remaining portion of a Miami-area condo tower that partially collapsed was demolished Sunday night after engineers declared it unstable, officials said. Search-and-rescue efforts were put on pause at the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, Saturday afternoon as officials worried the unstable structure could come down on crews working the debris pile. The building came down at 10:30 p.m. Earlier, residents in the area were told to shelter in place and close their w...

Survivors of the collapse share the stories of how they escaped. Author: KELLI KENNEDY Associated Press Published: 12:00 AM CDT July 3, 2021 Updated: 12:00 AM CDT July 3, 2021 FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla — 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 their 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 s...

'Tragedy beyond tragedy': Champlain Towers South was a catastrophe in slow motion By: CNN By Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Curt Devine and Casey Tolan, CNN (CNN) -- Sara Nir was up late, checking her email when she heard knocking sounds that went from a soft tapping to hard pounding to a frightful crash overhead -- as if a wall had collapsed in the unit above her ground-floor condo. Raysa Rodriguez was sleeping in her room on the ninth floor when she awoke disoriented. The building was swaying "like a sheet of paper." She ran into the hallway to find ...

As condo crashed down, they escaped through smoke and ruin KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6This Wednesday, June 23, 2021, photo provided by Albert Aguero shows him, his wife, Janette; 14-year-old daughter, Athena, and 22-year-old son, Justin Willis, vacationing in the Miami area from New Jersey. They all were able to escape the building collapse of Champlain Towers South the following day. “When I opened the staircase door and half the staircase was missing, at that point I know we’re racing against time to all get out as a family,” Albert Aguero ...

As condo crashed down, they escaped through smoke and ruin KELLI KENNEDY, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 6 1of6This Wednesday, June 23, 2021, photo provided by Albert Aguero shows him, his wife, Janette; 14-year-old daughter, Athena, and 22-year-old son, Justin Willis, vacationing in the Miami area from New Jersey. They all were able to escape the building collapse of Champlain Towers South the following day. “When I opened the staircase door and half the staircase was missing, at that point I know we’re racing against time to all get out as a family,” Albert Aguero ...