Haunted by tragedy and safety fears, Surfside residents debate leaving home By Syndicated Content
By Gabriella Borter and Francisco Alvarado
SURFSIDE, Fla. (Reuters) – Chiara Mauriziano rolled a suitcase into Champlain Towers East in Surfside, Florida on Wednesday morning, returning home nearly a week after a condo tower a few hundred feet away collapsed, killing at least 16 and leaving scores missing.
Mauriziano, like many of her neighbors in Champlain Towers East and other nearby buildings, awoke to a nightmare last Thursday. Around 1:30 am, Champlain Towers South, which sits on the same strip of beachfront as the building in which Mauriziano’s family has owned a condo for two decades, partially collapsed into a smoldering mound of twisted metal and fragmented concrete.
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