Entire Families Were Lost in the Surfside Collapse. Here Is One of Their Stories.
Because the disaster happened in the middle of the night, many parents, children, grandparents and siblings were killed together.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue workers placed a banner at a memorial on Wednesday.Credit.Joe Raedle/Getty Images
July 8, 2021, 7:48 p.m. ET
MIAMI Just after dawn on that morning that now feels like forever ago, Annette Guara Hurst hurried to her computer. A high-rise condo building had collapsed in a Surfside, Fla., neighborhood familiar to her, and she needed to see the file where she keeps her family’s addresses. She scanned the list, looking for her youngest brother, praying that her gut was wrong.
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He loved life : Marcus Guara dies in condo collapse. Wife, young daughters still missing Taylor Dolven and Samantha J. Gross, The Miami Herald
Jun. 30 As soon as the Champlain Towers South condo tower partially collapsed Thursday morning in Surfside, friends of Marcus Guara, 52, began sharing memories of the South Florida native on social media.
Accompanying faded photos of teen boys with shaggy hairdos on bikes are heartfelt messages describing days gone by spent at the now-closed Boystown BMX track in South Dade in the 1980s. He didn t stay mad at anyone for very long, recalled Guara s childhood friend Jeff Keller in a Facebook post. That s who he was.