Miami Is Used to Disasters. The Surfside Collapse Felt Different Time 2 hrs ago Vera Bergengruen / Surfside, Florida © Zack Wittman The Washington Post/Getty Images The interior of the Champlain Towers South building is exposed after the residential building partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla. on June 24, 2021.
Estelle Hedaya’s apartment facing the ocean in Surfside, Florida, is sliced open for all to see: the couch in her living room, her kitchen, even the suitcases from the trip to Las Vegas she had just returned from are there where she left them at 1:30am last Thursday.
“But what’s not there is her bed. Her bedroom was blown into a pile of rubble,” says Debra Golan, her friend of more than four decades. “And you can still see her suitcase, with the luggage tag still on it. I think those are the moments that it hits me.”
They were on their balconies, screaming: The final minutes at Champlain Towers South
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They were on their balconies, screaming: The final minutes at Champlain Towers South
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