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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 Morgan Winsor
5 hours ago At least 36 people, including three children, have been confirmed dead and 109 others remain unaccounted for after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in South Florida s Miami-Dade County last month. The disaster occurred on June 24 around 1:15 a.m. local time at the Champlain Towers South condominium in the small, beachside town of Surfside, about 6 miles north of Miami Beach. Approximately 55 of the oceanfront complex s 136 units were destroyed, according to officials. Since then, hundreds of first responders have been carefully combing through the pancaked piles of debris in hopes of finding survivors . Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced Tuesday morning that four more bodies were recovered from the rubble. In the evening, she announced another four bodies had been recovered, bringing the official death toll to 36.
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