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Rescuers look for signs of life as dozens remain unaccounted for after Florida building collapse
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 25 - 06 - 2021

The painstaking search for dozens of missing people continued in the rubble of the partially collapsed residential building in South Florida as officials held out hope that others would be found under the mountain of debris.
At least one person was confirmed dead in the collapse in the beachfront community of Surfside, a few miles north of Miami Beach, according to Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, and another 102 people were accounted for.
The collapse left 99 people unaccounted for as of Thursday, officials said.
Nearly 55 of the 136 units at Champlain Towers South crumbled at around 1:30 a.m. on Thursday, leaving huge piles of rubble and materials dangling from what remained of the structure, officials said.
"We're not giving up," Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said. "That is the one thing we're not doing. We're searching 24 hours a day, and we're pulling as many people out as we can. That's the whole goal right now. Nothing else matters."
The cause of the collapse remains unknown.
Two people were pulled from the rubble, said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Assistant Chief Ray Jadallah said, who did not disclose their medical conditions. Another 35 were pulled from the building by first-responders, he said.
Rescuers are using dogs as well as listening devices to search for survivors, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue District Chief Jason Richard said.
As rescuers move through the rubble, they are accompanied by structural engineers who determine which spaces are safe and where additional shoring and other materials are needed to ensure the building doesn't shift or come down onto rescuers, Richard explained.
"So as we move through the building, we constantly monitor, making sure that there's no movement, every piece of rubble that we move, we have to take, make efforts to stabilize the building, inch by inch," Richard said. — CNN


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