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CADENA’s Search and Rescue Team: Arielle Shturman Waiss, Guidian Shturman Waiss, David Israel Benaim Getzel, Ely Saad Braun, Yosef Laniado Mareyna, Ariela Wulfovich Kahan and Moises Soffer Luchtan. (Source: CADENA International)
When the news broke about the Champlain Towers collapse in Surfside, Florida, I was on the phone with a colleague from CADENA discussing the importance of cultivating a global network of Jewish humanitarians who are trained in emergency rescue, crisis prevention and disaster relief.
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Moises Soffer, a volunteer member of Cadena International s search-and-rescue team working at the site of the condo building collapse, holds a trained search dog named Oreo in Surfside, Fla., on Sunday.
Updated June 30, 2021 at 6:54 PM ET
U.S. and international rescue teams are hopeful they will find survivors as they work long hours searching through the rubble of a beachfront condo building in Surfside, Fla.
It s been nearly a week since part of the 12-story structure collapsed in the middle of the night. Eighteen people are confirmed dead and 145 more are unaccounted for.
Leon Roy Hausmann is a board member of Cadena International, a disaster assistance nonprofit that has provided a trained team of volunteers from Mexico to help with the search and rescue.
Our backyard : Tragedy strikes home for Miami-Dade rescuers
BOBBY CAINA CALVAN and RUSS BYNUM, Associated Press
June 29, 2021
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1of9FILE - In this June 28, 2021, file photo, workers search the rubble at the Champlain Towers South Condo in Surfside, Fla. Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade have been described as among the best and most experienced in the world.Lynne Sladky/APShow MoreShow Less
2of9FILE - In this Aug. 23, 1999, file photo, Elena Lopez, of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, Florida Task Force One, Urban Search and Rescue team, searches the rubble in Izmit, Turkey, with her search dog Thea. Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade have been described as among the best and most experienced in the world. (Patrick Farrell/Miami Herald via AP, File)PATRICK FARRELL/APShow MoreShow Less
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Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade have been described as among the best and most experienced in the world.
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SURFSIDE, Fla. Search and rescue teams from Miami-Dade are considered among the best and most experienced in the world, dispatched to epic disaster scenes far beyond Florida from the rubble of the World Trade Center to earthquake-ravaged Haiti, Mexico and the Philippines.
This time disaster struck at home.
The rescuers are searching urgently for the scores of souls buried beneath the fallen 12-story wing of the Champlain Towers condo building. As of Tuesday afternoon, more than five days after the collapse, the death toll stood at 12, with 149 people unaccounted for.