the stairs have disconnected from the wall. we could see rubble. i went first followed by kye holding his puppy. ada was waiting for us at the eighth floor. yadira must have call the her. yadira helped ada in her 80s and on a walker. we slowly navigating the teps downward trying to be as gentle as possible. i was moving faster so i reached the first floor exit that leads to the pool area before yadira and ada. kye was by my side. the door was blocked by rubble. i pushed but couldn t move it. i told kai to wait and move down a few more steps toward the parking garage. it was dark. i could hear water flooding into the garage. i knew being electrocuted was a possibility. let me continue. so i wait i made my way back up. i told yadira we needed to exit through the second floor, on the second floor we knocked on several doors. i turned and noticed that our
behind the scenes, and part of that report, if you read the report, there s actually a sentence in there where he is stating that if this waterproofing and this damage occurred here by the pool area, where else in the building could it have occurred, meaning i don t know if they had an opportunity to see the whole building, and i don t know if they went on the roof, but there are other waterproofing membranes that protect not only the garage and pool deck, because the pool is still standing, you can look at the aerials and it s still standing, and the rooftop, i didn t see any roof repair material on the existing building that is still standing. i don t know if the waterproofing maybe gave way on the roof. i think the forensic engineers will get through that in the next few weeks and months. i think that we will have a very certain direction as to the point the trigger point of
through the side, i saw the firefighters helping some elderly ladies coming down from the balconies. i took video footage of that and i still have not seen the devastation we are all seeing now because from the outside of the building on the street side, when you walk down the core door between both buildings you go to beachside and turning left and looking up, it was just mammoth. you ve got a building and you literally cut it in half. with all these apartments sticking out, it was incredible. jillian: the conversation in the last few days seems to be surrounding the pool area, there s that 2018 engineering report citing significant flaws.
pool area, and abundant cracking in other parts of the building. the engineers report said failure to replace the waterproofing in the near future, will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially. again, identifying bad concrete deterioration, already seeing failure to do mutual repairs would cause the concrete deterioration to spread. the report also said that the waterproofing had been laid on a flat structure, which hadn t been slow to drain. calling it a major error by the developers and builders. the engineer added this was causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas. this was all from 2018 all in black and white. all quite explicit and urgent. the surviving residents from the collapse of the building said they hadn t heard any of. this town officials told them in 2018 meeting that the
surfside, florida just before it chanced las ed collapsed last week. a pool contractor talking about the nightmare he fund tound thi basement s building. i walked through the pool area, didn t notice anything particularly alarming. he was being escorted by a building employee who then walked him downstairs to the garage below and that is where he told us that he saw tdeep standing water that he found concerning. and then he was led to the south side under the pool area, still in the garage, too where the pool equipment room was. and inside that room, he saw major concrete spalling, exposed rebar in one of the beams. he found it alarming enough that he snapped photos, sent them to