SURFSIDE — More than 200 search-and-rescue specialists, working in sopping and sweltering conditions, had moved 3 million pounds of concrete on the sixth day of a frenzied and mass effort to find survivors or the dead amid the ruins of a collapsed condo tower north of Miami.
Twenty local, state and federal agencies and a flood of volunteers from across the world had rushed to Surfside, a mostly residential community just north of Miami, in the hours and days following the collapse of a portion of the 13-story Champlain Towers South tower last Thursday.
The nation's focus on the disaster is set to heighten further with President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden planning to visit the site Thursday.