‘We Need a Definitive Explanation’ on Surfside Building Collapse: Florida Governor
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that a “definitive explanation” is needed in a timely manner as to why a 12-story condo building partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida, amid search and rescue efforts in the aftermath of the deadly incident.
At a press conference in Surfside, a small suburb north of Miami Beach, the Republican governor said that he and Democrat Mayor Daniella Levine Cava of Miami-Dade County both agree there needs to be “a definitive explanation for how this could have happened.”
“And that’s an explanation that needs to be an accurate explanation,” DeSantis said of the partially-collapsed Champlain Towers South building. “It’s an explanation that we don’t want to get wrong, obviously, but at the same time I do think it’s important that it’s timely—because you have a lot of families here, you have families that lost loved ones in this building collapse. They have a right to know. You have other folks who were able to get out safely, but then lost their homes. … They have a right to know as well.”