SURFSIDE, Fla. As search-and-rescue crews worked through rainfall and smoke from a stubborn fire smoldering below the rubble of the partially collapsed Champlain Towers South Condo in Surfside on Saturday, elected leaders and first responders held out hope that more survivors may be found in the wreckage as they sought to reassure residents of other high-rise buildings that their structures are safe.
From Miami-Dade County to the Florida Governor’s Mansion and federal agencies, government officials pledged to send more support for victims and families while they work to find answers for the unimaginable tragedy that killed at least four people and buried potentially dozens more in a pile of crumbled concrete and twisted steel.
SURFSIDE, Fla. A fifth body was pulled from the rubble of the Champlain Towers South Condo in Surfside on Saturday afternoon and other human remains located, as the search and rescue operation entered its third day, dimming hopes that anyone would be found alive in the wreckage. By late afternoon, voluntary evacuations were also underway at two other buildings, Champlain Towers North and East .
A woman from Louisiana is among the dozens of missing individuals first responders are searching for in the rubble of Florida s partially collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building.
Faces of the missing: Surgeon and his adopted daughter, a Bay of Pigs veteran and a woman who called her husband screaming as the Miami condo collapsed are among 156 people still unaccounted for
Officials said they were finding remains of humans on the site where 12 stories came crashing down on top of each other - and they were turning to DNA technology to determine peoples identities
There was still hope that people would be found in air pockets in the rubble, which throughout Saturday still smoldered and even caught fire, but as time goes on, the mood has gotten more ominous
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