Posted on 06/25/2021 9:05:21 AM PDT by BenLurkin
There are now 159 people unaccounted for in the partial building collapse in Surfside, Fla., Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Friday — a rise from 99 people a day earlier.
Three more bodies were found in the rubble, bringing the number of fatalities so far to four. More than 100 people have already been accounted for.
"I want to be very clear about the numbers," Levine Cava said at a press conference Friday. "They're very fluid. We'll continue to update you as we have them."
"We will continue search and rescue because we still have hope that we will find people alive," Levine Cava said. "That is why we are using our dogs and our sonar and our cameras — everything possible to seek places where there may still be people to be found."
"As we work tirelessly and stand united — local municipal, county, state and now federal support — we are going to work as hard as we can to continue our search-and-rescue effort," Levine Cava said. "That is our priority, that is where we're focused and protecting our first responders who are on the scene."
She said that people evacuated from the building are being provided food, shelter, cash to assist with their basic needs and grief counseling at a family reunification center.
President Biden approved an emergency declaration on Friday morning authorizing the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate disaster relief efforts.
The cause of the building's sudden collapse early Thursday morning remains unclear.
A reunification center has been established near the site of the building where families and friends await any news of their loved ones.
“cal-cloride to speed cold weather setting of concrete/mortar mix,”
This is SOUTHERN FLORIDA!
Were there any survivors?
Did you see the video where there were flashes going on in many of the different units in the part that collapsed as it was collapsing? Someone said it was things shorting out as it fell but just looked, ...well...suspect.
Unaccounted for people, would be those who live there, but haven’t been heard from. Let’s hope and pray they were away, on vacation, at work, or otherwise just not at home when this happened.
Sadly, I’m sure they will find more dead in the rubble.
The pictures remind me of the Oklahoma City bombing pictures.
One, I think.
That is indeed a thing that is fraught with hazard, as they found out on Padre Island a few years back:
“I’ve seen slabs where the subs got their inspection, the rebar was then picked up and moved to the next lot over while the first was poured.
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Wait. What?
You actually ‘saw’ this being done? That would make you a really despicable human being if you did nothing and went your merry way. Omgosh.
If you ‘read’ about this being done, like in an investigation that would be much more reassuring.
Merciful Maude.
No I stuck my hand in the crack where the slab had cracked and separated and looked for evidence of there having been rebar in the slab years after it was poured. The story of the sub moving the rebar came from the neighbor who saw it happen out his window. I assume he testified in the trial.
It is why the buildings are replaced every 40 to 50 years.
Yeah, we get rally cold here at least one week a year.🤗
Actually, it snowed here once.
Thank you, Clay Moore, for setting me correct!
And very gracious at the same time, you were.
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Thank you, Clay Moore, for setting me correct!
And very gracious at the same time, you were.
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:)
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