Florida condo collapse: 9 dead as families privately visit disaster area
By Megan Ziegler
Florida officials and authorities give condo collapse update
Florida officials and authorities gave a news conference Sunday evening regarding an update on the deadly condo collapse in Surfside.
As the death toll from the collapsed condominium in Surfside, Florida rose Sunday to nine, relatives were growing increasingly desperate for news and worried about the slow progress and dwindling hopes.
No one has been pulled alive from the pile since hours after the collapse of the Champlain Towers South building Thursday morning. Some family members were taken by bus Sunday to a location near the site after relatives frustrated with the pace of rescue efforts demanded to visit the scene.
Morabito Consultants, a structural engineering firm, said in a statement issued Saturday afternoon it completed a report in 2018 that "detailed significant cracks and breaks in the concrete" at Champlain Towers South and provided an estimate of costs to "make the extensive and necessary repairs."
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