‘Frantic effort’ to find condo collapse survivors continues, even as hope dwindles Rebecca Ta, Silvia Foster-Frau, Dan Lamothe, Griff Witte © Octavio Jones for The Washington Post Mourners visit a memorial wall dedicated to the residents of Champlain Towers South. The death toll from the condominium collapse last week in Surfside, Fla., rose to 11 on Monday, and 150 people remain missing. SURFSIDE, Fla. Hundreds of would-be rescuers dug painstakingly through a mountain of crushed concrete, mangled steel and smashed belongings on Monday as officials vowed to continue the desperate search for survivors of last week s condominium collapse. The effort, state leaders said, represented the largest non-hurricane search-and-rescue mission in Florida history. But for a fifth day, the perilous work again yielded little reason for hope: Two more bodies were recovered amid the still-smoking rubble, bringing the number of confirmed dead to 11; 150 people remaine
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Army Sgt. Nicholas M. Dickhut
23, of Stewartville, Minn.; Dickhut was assigned to 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
23-year-old Army Sgt Nicholas M. Dickhut graduated from Stewartville High School and went on to Rochester Community and Technical College. He later was an Office Max supervisor before enlisting in the Army.
Reports at the time say he d just called home to wish his little brother a Happy Birthday when he was killed in a firefight in Afghanistan. Before his tour of duty in Afghanistan, Dickhut served in Iraq in 2009.
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