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Champlain Towers South To Be Demolished On July 4th By Danielle Ong on July 05 2021 12:58 PM People look at a portion of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building that partially collapsed on June 24, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. It is unknown at this time how many people were injured as search-and-rescue effort continues with rescue crews from across Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Officials in Miami-Dade County are set to demolish the remaining structure of the Champlain Towers amid concerns that part of the condominium was unstable. According to a...

'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 ...

By Rob Kuznia, Scott Glover, Curt Devine and Casey Tolan, 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 that it had been impaled from floor to ceiling by a concrete pillar; the doors of the elevators were shorn off, exposing the shafts.

Through the lobby's wall of windows, Nir saw cars jutting out of the ground, some standing nearly upright, and the pool deck caved in. An earthquake, she thought, dashing back toward Unit 111, toward her kids. Gabe, 25, a night owl, had just pulled salmon from the oven, while 15-year-old Chani was fresh out of the shower. The two stood gaping at their mother from the doorway of the apartment, drawn out by the commotion. "I said, 'Run, fast!'" Sara recalled. "And Chani looked at me. She said: 'I have a bathrobe. Look at me.' I said: 'I don't care! You need to run.'"