View of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside before its demolition July 4, 2021. Archbishop Thomas Wenski, Cardinal Sean O Malley of Boston and Father Juan Sosa, pastor of St. Joseph Church a couple of blocks away, visited the site July 2, 2021. The parts of the building that remained standing were demolished the night of July 4, 2021. (COURTESY) COURTESY
MIAMI BEACH Â | Â Hope Sadowski knew, when she heard about the collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside, that Hilda Noriega, her 92-year-old fellow parishioner at St. Joseph, might be among the dead.
âI knew that the chances of her having survived a fall from the sixth floor were very slim,â said Sadowski, an administrative assistant in the archdiocesan Department of Schools and a longtime parishioner at St. Joseph.
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Another 61 people are potentially still unaccounted for, Levine Cava said. Detectives are still working to verify that each of those listed as missing was actually in the building when it collapsed.
Levine Cava said the number of bodies recovered has put a strain on the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner s Office, with the medical examiner from neighboring Broward County now helping.
More than 13 million pounds of concrete and debris have been removed from the site, with 60 trucks working to haul it away per day, officials said. The pile that was originally four or five stories. It’s now almost at ground level. So the progress that our search and rescue teams are making is really incredible, Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said.
Another 61 people are potentially still unaccounted for, Levine Cava said. Detectives are still working to verify that each of those listed as missing was actually in the building when it collapsed.
Levine Cava said the number of bodies recovered has put a strain on the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner s Office, with the medical examiner from neighboring Broward County now helping.
More than 13 million pounds of concrete and debris have been removed from the site, with 60 trucks working to haul it away per day, officials said. The pile that was originally four or five stories. It’s now almost at ground level. So the progress that our search and rescue teams are making is really incredible, Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said.
UpdatedFri, Jul 9, 2021 at 6:30 pm ET
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People mourn at the memorial wall for the victims of the Champlain Towers South collapse. Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in the rubble. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald via AP)
SURFSIDE, FL Rescue workers now focused on finding remains instead of survivors in the rubble of a Florida condominium collapse vowed to keep up their search for victims until they cleared all the debris at the site.
A fire official told family members at a Thursday meeting that crews will not stop working until they ve gotten to the bottom of the pile and recovered every single of the families missing loved ones, Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said at an evening news conference. He did not identify the official, but said the families were grateful.