She said the building was demolished at exactly 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Independence Day, and it fell according to plan, toward Collins Avenue, away from the existing rubble pile, which was covered with a tarp to protect it from dust from the implosion.
By 1 a.m. Monday, rescue crews were back to a full search-and-rescue operation.
“The demolition was executed flawlessly. And the rescue team said none of the existing pile, where there are victims still, was affected,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said. Bringing the building down in a controlled manner was critical to our search,” Levine Cava said, noting that rescuers could now access the west side of the pile, which she said had been holding up the tower that was still standing. She said teams were already looking for voids where someone would have been able to be inside.
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