surfside building collapse

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced Wednesday that first responders were shifting from a search and rescue effort for potential survivors of the Surfside condo collapse to recovering the bodies of the victims.

The remaining portion of the Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Fla., was demolished Sunday night.

Nearly three weeks since a 12-story condo partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla., first responders have now recovered the bodies of 97 victims. As many as 8 people are still unaccounted for.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced Friday that the bodies of two more victims of the Surfside condo collapse had been recovered overnight, including that of the 7-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter.

Dozens who fled the collapse of a condominium tower in South Florida escaped with their lives, but little else.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced on Thursday evening that Search and Rescue teams had resumed searching for victims of the Surfside condo collapse, after a nearly 15-hour pause due to safety concerns for the first responders.

Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced on Tuesday evening that an additional victim had been found in the wreckage of the partially collapsed Surfside condo, bringing the death toll to 12 and the number of people still unaccounted for to 149.

A letter sent in April to residents of the Miami Beach-area condo that collapsed last week said the building’s “concrete deterioration is accelerating” and warned that damage “would begin to multiply exponentially.” The letter, sent by Champlain Towers South Board President Jean Wodnicki, explained to residents why a renovation that had originally been estimated to cost about $9 million had jumped...

Families of the missing have visited the scene of the Florida condo building collapse. The visit on Sunday took place as rescuers kept digging through the mound of rubble and clinging to hope that someone could still be alive somewhere under the broken concrete and twisted metal.