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The men say they were working on the demolition of the garage when a breeze came through. One has severe injuries to his leg.

FPL, JEA and Florida search and rescue task force members are on their way to Louisiana.

“It’s difficult,” Dean said, “Especially because we’re starting to put faces with names, when we gather belongings and we see the pictures, we see the loved ones and we see the family members that have had the opportunity to come to the pile and speak to them and put stories behind those individuals, there is a connection there, obviously not the same as the families, but we do feel it.” The recovery teams uncover the family photos and mementos and jewelry, and then two teams of Miami-Dade Police detectives work day and night, sorting the personal items retrieved from the debris.�...

After working long hours for days to aid in the search and recovery mission at Surfside, two of the members of Southwest Florida’s Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 6 are finally home. They say that their work in Surfside is something they’ll never forget. Yet, they hope they won’t ever have to experience something like that again. The mounds of debris and piles of concrete seen at the Surfside condo collapse site were difficult images to take in. Mathew Marshall and Zair Gonzalez were part of one of the first teams to look for any signs of life.

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA A Sacramento Urban Search and Rescue team member directs a heavy equipment operator combing through the remains of the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside, Florida Friday, July 9, 2021. Death toll reaches 86 in Florida collapse; site to be cleared ‘sooner than expected’ MIAMI — First responders continuing the search and recovery mission in the debris of the collapsed Surfside condo tower on Saturday worked at times through heavy downpours and strong wind gusts to uncover more of the former residents and visitors of the Champlain Towers South, with perha...