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The Surfside community in Florida is anxious to learn what caused the condo building collapse that has killed at least 97 people, but a structural engineer said the investigation will not reach full force until search crews have finished their work.
The site is currently under the control of the Miami-Dade Police Department and is classified as a crime scene following the collapse on June 24, Allyn Kilsheimer, a structural engineer hired by the city, told CNN.
As of Sunday, 95 of the 97 victims recovered have been identified.
Miami-Dade County said last week that, moving forward, it will only be reporting the number of victims who have been identified, out of respect for the families who are still waiting and to ensure we are reporting the most accurate possible numbers.
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An engineer who was hired by Surfside, Florida, to analyze last month s residential building collapse said he was denied access to the site because police agencies are investigating the scene. Until they do their job, we can t go in to do samples of materials and take those samples and test them to understand what the various components of the building that came down was, structural engineer Allyn Kilsheimer told CNN s Ana Cabrera on Friday. What I d like to have the access to first is the basement slab of the building, to go in there to do the exploratory testing of the ground, the power foundations and all that stuff to understand, he added.