No. 4 - People can be heard screaming and yelling for help amid rubble in newly released police body camera footage that shows the initial emergency response to the Surfside condominium collapse.
The footage released Tuesday by the Town of Surfside shows the massive response to the Champlain Towers South on Collins Avenue, moments after a section of the building collapsed in the early morning hours of June 24. Another officer is seen running alongside the portion of the building that s still standing in darkness, as screaming can be heard in the background. In another video an officer running to the scene finds people yelling please help! near the building s garage area, with cars having fallen into partially collapsed sections of the concrete. Click here to see the video that contains images that could be disturbing for some viewers.
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MISSION SAN FRANCISCO DE ASIS, Honduras
First came Hurricane Eta. Then, Hurricane Iota, unleashing rains of biblical proportions on the hillside community of La Reina.
As Iota hammered La Reina for four days, residents kept watch on the mountain above their 300 homes for signs that they should flee. Some left quickly when the downpour ceased. Ivan Varela resisted, hoping to protect the seven houses he and his brothers had built over the years with money they earned in the United States.
On the last night, as his parents prayed, Varela shot his pistol into the air to scare off thieves stalking the properties of those who already had evacuated. But soon he realized the battle was lost. Water was gushing out of the ground and the earth was starting to tremble. He called his brother in Florida.
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Friar Leopoldo Serrano celebrates a Mass broadcast via Facebook from a chapel in Mission San Francisco de Asis, Honduras, Saturday, June 19, 2021. Located on the border of the departments of Santa Barbara and Copan, his sprawling mission straddles the road that is one of the main drug trafficking corridors in the region.
Rodrigo Abd - staff, AP
Marian Castron, from left, Maria Castron, 25, and Jenny Castron, 19, visit their home devastated by a landslide triggered by consecutive hurricanes in La Reina, Honduras, Friday, June 25, 2021. The Honduran town was hammered in November 2020 by Hurricanes Eta and Iota and then obliterated by a mudslide.