Surfside building collapse latest: Search and rescue shifts to recovery mission
Surfside officials announce rescue is now a recovery effort
Replay Video UP NEXT The search and rescue efforts at the collapsed Surfside, Florida, apartment complex have shifted to a recovery effort as 86 people remain unaccounted for, officials said Wednesday. It is with profound sadness that this afternoon I m able to share that we made the extremely difficult decision to transition from operation search and rescue to recovery, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a press briefing Wednesday evening, on the 14th day of the search. The emergency crews had truly exhausted every option available to us in the search and rescue mission, the mayor said, and noted that the families of those still missing had been informed of the decision to transition to a recovery effort and help to bring closure.
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By Theresa Waldrop, Alisha Ebrahimji, Ray Sanchez, Claire Colbert and Amir Vera, CNN
(CNN) The dead and unaccounted for residents of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida, reflect the area s rich cultural diversity. The international tragedy has touched members of a tight-knit Jewish community and families from as far away as Argentina, Paraguay and Colombia.
Scores of people remain unaccounted for after the collapse of part of the 13-story residential building. Search and rescue teams have been feverishly scouring the site since shortly after 55 of the building s 136 units fell at around 1:30 a.m. on June 24.
Condo collapse response shifts from rescue to recovery as official says no chance of additional survivors Lori Rozsa, Derek Hawkins, Max Hauptman, Hannah Knowles
Search and rescue efforts at Surfside condo to transition to recovery operation
Replay Video UP NEXT SURFSIDE, Fla. The massive search effort ending its second week here is shifting from rescue to recovery as an official said no additional victims of the condo tower collapse are thought to be alive. Crews that once hoped to rescue survivors from pockets in the ruins of Champlain Towers South have discovered only bodies in the aftermath of a catastrophe that officials are still trying to explain. With 86 people still unaccounted for, authorities said they found 18 additional victims, the highest number recorded in a day. That pushed the known death toll to 54 as a prosecutor enlisted a grand jury to examine the disaster and, in court, a judge began to tackle the impossible task of compensating p
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