The Town of Surfside hosted a remembrance event for the 98 lives lost to the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse. Community members gathered at the barren site on the first anniversary of the disaster, which became one of the largest non-hurricane emergencies recorded in Florida.
Survivors of the Surfside condominium collapse say they are suffering even more today than they did on June 24, 2021, when two-thirds of the 12-story oceanfront building fell, one floor pancaking on top of another at 1:22 a.m. that Thursday, killing 98 people.
Surfside victims: Alfredo and Lorenzo Leone, father and 5-year-old son, died while mom was away
Surfside residents detail heartbreaking moment condo building partially collapsed
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Alfredo Leone and his wife, Raquel Oliveira, moved to Miami from Brazil four years ago, looking for a safer place to raise their young son.
The family ultimately settled into a fifth-floor condominium at Champlain Towers South in the Miami-Dade County town of Surfside.
Alfredo, 48, and Lorenzo Leone, 5, were among those killed in a partial collapse of the condo building on the morning of June 24. Their bodies were recovered July 8, according to Miami-Dade police.
La brasileña de 41 años de edad estaba en Colorado visitando a su madre y a su hermana cuando el edificio de condominios Champlain Towers South se derrumbó en las primeras horas del 24 de junio. Había ido para una breve visita, y se despertó con la horrible noticia ese jueves.
Oliveira y Leone, de origen italiano, se mudaron a Surfside en Miami desde Río de Janeiro en 2017, en busca de un lugar más seguro para criar a su hijo Lorenzo, que tenía 8 meses en ese momento.
Aunque consideraron mudarse a Portugal, el dinamismo de Miami y la escena tecnológica emergente atrajeron a Leone. Como profesional de desarrollo empresarial con experiencia en el lanzamiento de empresas de tecnología en varios mercados, el ingeniero eléctrico nacido en Roma estaba emocionado cuando se unió a MentorcliQ, una empresa que proporciona software de tutoría a equipos de todo el mundo. Fue director de ingresos de la empresa.
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