2021/06/29 09:47 Leo Soto, who created this memorial with grocery stores donating flowers and candles, pauses in front of photos of some of the missing people that he . Leo Soto, who created this memorial with grocery stores donating flowers and candles, pauses in front of photos of some of the missing people that he put on a fence, near the site of an oceanfront condo building that partially collapsed in Surfside, Fla., Friday, June 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Angelica Pulido looks at a makeshift memorial with photos of some of the missing people near the site of an oceanfront condo building that partially c.
An aerial view shows search and rescue personnel working on site after the partial collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, north of Miami Beach, on Thursday.
At about 1:30 a.m. Thursday morning, residents of the South Florida town of Surfside awoke to a terrible sound: an entire wing of a condo building and the lives of those within in it crashing down.
Champlain Towers South was built in 1981 on oceanfront property near Miami. It s not at all clear what caused the building to suddenly pancake, its 12 floors collapsing onto one another. That s not an old building, Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said Thursday. That kind of thing should not be happening.
The condo collapsed into a pile of rubble, and searchers combing through a twisted, shifting pile of concrete and metal fear the death toll could rise.
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) The torturous wait for word of nearly 160 people unaccounted for after an oceanfront condominium building collapsed near Miami, killing at least four, is taking a toll on relatives who can do little but pray and hope their loved ones will somehow be found alive in an increasingly dire hunt for survivors.