Our backyard : Tragedy strikes home for Miami-Dade rescuers
BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press
June 29, 2021
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1of9FILE - In this June 28, 2021, file photo, workers search the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo in Surfside, Fla. Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade have been described as among the best and most experienced in the world.Lynne Sladky/APShow MoreShow Less
2of9FILE - In this Aug. 23, 1999, file photo, Elena Lopez, of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Florida Task Force One, Urban Search and Rescue team, searches the rubble in Izmit, Turkey, with her search dog Thea. Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade have been described as among the best and most experienced in the world. (Patrick Farrell/Miami Herald via AP, File)PATRICK FARRELL/APShow MoreShow Less
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Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade have been described as among the best and most experienced in the world.
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SURFSIDE, Fla. Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade are considered among the best and most experienced in the world, dispatched to epic disaster scenes far beyond Florida from the rubble of the World Trade Center to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, Mexico and the Philippines.
This time disaster struck at home.
The rescuers are searching urgently for the scores of souls buried beneath the fallen 12-story wing of the Champlain Towers condo building. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than five days after the collapse, the death toll stood at 12, with 149 people unaccounted for.
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FILE - In this June 28, 2021, file photo, workers search the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo in Surfside, Fla. Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade have been described as among the best and most experienced in the world. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
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Crews spend 5th day atop shaky pile of collapsed concrete in Florida Today 05:15 am JST Today | 07:12 am JST SURFSIDE, Fla
Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery Monday as they worked atop a precarious mound of pulverized concrete, twisted steel and the remnants of dozens of households.
Authorities said the efforts are still a search-and-rescue operation, but no one has been found alive since hours after the collapse on Thursday. Ten people have been confirmed killed, and more than 150 others are still missing in the community of Surfside, just outside Miami.