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Why the Miami Beach Area Condo Search Seems to Go Slowly
New York Times ^ | - 31m ago June 27, 2021 | Melina Delkic

Posted on 06/27/2021 2:54:56 PM PDT by Capt. Tom

Rescuers continued their search for victims of the Champlain Towers South condo in Surfside, Fla., on Sunday. As a perilous search and rescue operation heads into its fourth day in Surfside, Fla., some have asked why the operation at the collapsed Champlain Towers South condo building has taken so long and whether there is any hope for those left inside.

Officials have assured the public that the local search team, well regarded and sent to disasters around the world, and now working together with Israeli and Mexican teams, was doing everything it could.

The dangers to the rescuers and missing residents are clear and dictate that the process must be slow and deliberate, experts and officials say.

Toxic chemicals to fire

“Inside of there, there is everything from toxic chemicals to fire, smoke, all kinds of other hazards,” Sen. Marco Rubio, who visited the site on Saturday, said on the CBS program “Face the Nation.” “They have to be very careful. If they move one piece of rebar here, the rest of the pile could collapse somewhere else and either hurt the responders or hurt any survivors that might still be down there.”

The search is moving along, after a fire that impeded visibility was brought under control.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: condocollapse; florida
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To: Capt. Tom

NP I misunderstood.


21 posted on 06/27/2021 4:44:48 PM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Capt. Tom

Those Teslas don’t like water.


22 posted on 06/27/2021 4:50:07 PM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: Capt. Tom

I doubt there are any survivors at this point, what with the fires and smoke.

I’d honestly be surprised if they found anyone alive yet.


23 posted on 06/27/2021 5:51:04 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
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To: metmom; montag813

“I doubt there are any survivors at this point, what with the fires and smoke.
I’d honestly be surprised if they found anyone alive yet.”

Looks like that will be the case in a day or two. -Tom

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-22485587


24 posted on 06/27/2021 6:05:26 PM PDT by Capt. Tom (.It's COVID 2021 - The Events, not us, are still in charge -Tom)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Hell Oprah still yells at her microwave HURRY UP


25 posted on 06/27/2021 7:44:37 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: Capt. Tom

Another triumph of “experts” coming up, where they get the same results as 10,000 monkeys equipped with spoons, or a aboriginal medicine man, or a journalist. People die without water fairly quickly. Usually after 3 days, especially when the are injured, trapped and buried under rubble. Has the “use the maximum amount of people to dig with hands and and tools” method been thoroughly disproved?


26 posted on 06/27/2021 8:00:53 PM PDT by montaine
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