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Palm Beach encourages building inspections after Surfside condo collapse
Town cites heightened awareness of the need to proactively inspect buildings
The town of Palm Beach is encouraging building owners to conduct safety inspections in the aftermath of the Surfside condominium collapse.
and last updated 2021-07-01 17:43:49-04
PALM BEACH, Fla. â The town of Palm Beach is encouraging building owners to conduct safety inspections in the aftermath of the Surfside condominium collapse.
Palm Beach officials sent a letter Tuesday acknowledging the heightened awareness of the need to proactively inspect building structures in the coastal areas of Florida, including Palm Beach. The constant exposure to salt air, high winds and storms combine to put a large strain on the concrete used in building construction, town building official Wayne Bergman, Palm Beach Police Chief Nicholas Caristo, Fire Rescue Chief Darrel Donatto and Director of Public Works Paul Brazil wrote. Now is
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Despite a year of curfews, stay-at-home orders and a rise in COVID-19 cases as winter residents returned to Palm Beach, the 2020-21 season saw a light at the end of a very long tunnel.
When Gov. Ron DeSantis announced in January that seniors 65 and over would be the first group inoculated with the new COVID-19 vaccine, town officials were ready. An infrastructure and distribution system was put in place in September that allowed the town to secure an initial 1,000 vaccines for its residents.
On Jan. 5, the first doses of the Moderna vaccine were administered to eligible residents.
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The coronavirus pandemic could have been exponentially worse if not for the efforts of Palm Beach employees to keep residents safe, Mayor Danielle Moore said in her first state-of-the-town address last week.
Speaking to members of the Palm Beach Civic Association during its annual meeting April 30, Moore praised public safety leaders for their response to the global health crisis that has taken the lives of almost 580,000 Americans, including 13 island residents. We are at the end of what has surely been one of the worst years of our lives whether those lives have been long or short with a deadly pandemic compounded by political divisiveness and unprecedented violence, Moore told association members, who watched her address virtually.