Israeli Expertise Brings Closure to Surfside Disaster in Matter of Days
Felice Friedson, Steven Ganot and Maya Margit
07/09/2021
Innovative technologies, methodologies speed up recovery efforts while staving off psychological damage to victims’ families, search teams
The operation to search for survivors and bodies in the rubble of the collapsed Champlain Towers South condominium building in Surfside, Florida, a suburb of Miami, has been ongoing for two weeks. Sixty-four people have so far been confirmed dead and 76 are officially still missing. (Additional bodies have been recovered but authorities have yet to add them until their families are notified.)
On Thursday, June 24, at roughly 1:25 am Eastern Daylight Time, the 12-story building collapsed suddenly, with some reports stating that long-term degradation and structural issues were to blame for the incident.