Jewish Ledger
Hillary Sarrasin / June 28, 2021 / No Comment
‘It’s going to be a rough road’: In Surfside, the Jewish community braces for bad news on a somber Shabbat
SURFSIDE, Fla. (JTA) One kind of disaster, volunteer medic Baruch Sandhaus said, has a “lot of patients” a harrowing scene with many people and their injuries to treat.
The sudden collapse of one of the residential Champlain Towers buildings this week in this Miami-area town with a large Jewish population was not that kind of disaster.
“It was the minimal amount of patients,” he said.
Sandhaus has volunteered for decades with Hatzalah, the Jewish rescue organization, and the aftermath of this disaster reminds him of another national tragedy.
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