On June 24, 2021, Champlain Towers South, a condominium in Surfside, Florida, collapsed in the middle of the night, killing 98 people. Sharyn Alfonsi reports on the investigations into what caused the disaster.
The Miami-Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust held a public forum Wednesday in the Town of Surfside, spurred on by “a significant volume of inquiries".
No matter what, if any, role rising seas played in the collapse, there is no escaping the rising risks to Surfside and other coastal communities up and down the Florida coast.
Damage to Miami building was known but key oversight process was broken, experts say Jon Schuppe and Didi Martinez and Deon J. Hampton and Elisha Fieldstadt and Ellison Barber
Nearly half a century has passed since the collapse of a Drug Enforcement Agency office in Miami killed seven people and drove changes to local building codes. The new regulations required owners to check buildings that reached 40 years old for signs of deterioration in a wet, salty, storm-prone climate.
The rules have largely served South Florida well, ensuring that building owners make repairs before small problems turn catastrophic. And yet these rules did not prevent last week’s collapse of Champlain Towers South. While the cause of the collapse remains under investigation, officials and experts are calling for an examination of the rules, and whether they need to be updated, after the failure of the 12-story condominium building that stood at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean on a barr
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