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Shocking video shows water pouring into basement of doomed Miami condo building minutes before it collapsed, as death toll rises to 18 - including two children aged four and 10 - with 145 still missing
Daily Mail UK ^ | 30 Jun 2021 | BRIAN STIEGLITZ and RACHEL SHARPand ADAM SCHRADER

Posted on 06/30/2021 11:47:01 PM PDT by blueplum

Water was filmed pouring from the ceiling of the doomed Miami condo and into its basement garage minutes before it collapsed - as the death toll from the disaster rose to 18.

The video was recorded at 1.18am on June 24 and zooms in on the entrance to the gated garage beneath the north side of Champlain Towers South - behind which water rains from the ceiling as if blasted from a fire hose. The building was reported to have crumbled at around 1.25am.

It emerged as six more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the ruined building on Wednesday, with Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava confirming that two of those bodies belonged to the disasters first child victims, aged four and 10.

The alarming footage was posted to TikTok by Adriana Sarmiento who told Chicago news station WLS-TV that she was on vacation with her husband and was swimming in hotel pool of the Bluegreen Vacations Solara Surfside Resort pool when she heard a noise and went to investigate.

She pulled out her phone

Sarmiento said she had tried to notify residents about the danger but they thought she was exaggerating because 'things like that don't happen in America.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: champlaintowers; condocollapse; dadecounty; surfside
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To: mewzilla

Pull a freaking fire alarm??


21 posted on 07/01/2021 4:31:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: blueplum
"water pouring into basement"

will become "...due to 'Global Warming'"

22 posted on 07/01/2021 4:34:20 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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To: ronnie raygun
sink holes will be the cause

No. That's not right.

The building fell down - ALL BY ITSELF - because it was not built right, it deteriorated, then it fell down and went "BOOM!"

23 posted on 07/01/2021 4:41:38 AM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good. )
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To: Az Joe

The collapse in progress broke the water pipe


24 posted on 07/01/2021 4:43:52 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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To: Gene Eric

“That appears to have been either a water main or a sprinkler main that broke prior to the collapse”

A sprinkler main break should have caused the fire alarm to sound.


25 posted on 07/01/2021 4:49:43 AM PDT by Paperpusher
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To: blueplum

Tunnels have been discovered under the building that collapsed.


26 posted on 07/01/2021 5:09:00 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: blueplum
"Sarmiento said she had tried to notify residents about the danger but they thought she was exaggerating because 'things like that don't happen in America.'"

Welcome to Biden's America.

27 posted on 07/01/2021 5:12:39 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Patriot Babe

Yeah, I saw those reports...and that’s bad reporting perhaps driven by a translation problem. Those are ‘debris tunnels’ or ‘voids’ that were created when the building fell. Probably not the kind of tunnel you and most other English-speakers think about when you hear the word ‘tunnel.’

Historically, when rescuers find people alive alive, it’s in these ‘debris voids’ that the people are found. So, when rescuers begin to find voids, hope increases at least temporarily.


28 posted on 07/01/2021 5:23:09 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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To: Paperpusher

It will cause an alarm if it is past the riser. There is a 8” main or so coming in from the street that is unmonitored except by the water meter. Once inside the building it may be above or below the ground.

A waterflow alarm should not be silenceable until the flow has stopped by code.


29 posted on 07/01/2021 5:43:07 AM PDT by Clay Moore (RIP, Rush )
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To: zeestephen
The swimming pool was intact and full of water during the first news chopper broadcasts at sunrise. However, a large section of the patio directly west of the pool did collapse.

Did the patio collapse before, during, or after the buildings collapsed? Currently unknown.


30 posted on 07/01/2021 6:47:24 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: Right_in_Virginia

Here is some I witness testimony from the article. The building was doing bad things before the pool desk collapsed.

“Sara Nir, another resident, told The Washington Post that she saw something similar. She first she heard a number of knocking sounds that grew more intense and eventually sounded like a wall falling down.

She then heard a large crash so went to the lobby with her two kids to ask a security guard what was going on.

She says that while in the lobby, she watched the pool deck implode on itself, falling onto the underground parking garage. The building started to fall and she and her kids ran for their lives. They all survived.


31 posted on 07/01/2021 7:37:48 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: Right_in_Virginia

hottub looks emptied


32 posted on 07/01/2021 7:45:39 AM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: bert

Agreed


33 posted on 07/01/2021 8:48:20 AM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
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To: House Atreides

I will always be looking around when I enter a hi rise underground parking garage.

I worked on the 10th floor of a 20 story building for awhile once. I never liked it. I used to study out the windows and figure out which tree I could make for by flinging myself out the window in the event of a disaster.


34 posted on 07/01/2021 8:51:22 AM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Here’s hoping that the 145 being reported as still missing are simply snowbirds who have returned to their homes in the north for the summer......…

I would expect by now that if competent, they have an fairly accurate guesstimate of who was in the building. Probably close to the 140 number still "missing". This will be a 100+ lives lost tragedy, like a catastrophic plane crash.

35 posted on 07/01/2021 8:55:27 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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To: EVO X

God pic and diagram of parking garage from Freeper rxsid. Inspector said the water was pooling in parking spot #78. Notice the cars have fell 4 feet, they should be sitting above the brown part of columns.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/3971615/posts?page=75#75


36 posted on 07/01/2021 9:03:20 AM PDT by chuck allen
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To: Az Joe

Now they’ve stopped the rescue work because they fear the rest of the building might fall. They’ve noticed cracks 6 to 12 inches open up in a beam in the parking deck since last week.


37 posted on 07/01/2021 9:08:43 AM PDT by chuck allen
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To: chuck allen

I’ve seen this discussed. Amazing the structure above didn’t collapse as well.


38 posted on 07/01/2021 9:27:26 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: chuck allen

That debris is pulverized along with anyone still in it.


39 posted on 07/01/2021 9:59:42 AM PDT by Az Joe (FREE CHAUVIN!)
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To: House Atreides

Remember seeing those flashing lights as the building fell?
Maybe that was the fire alarm. Pipe snaps and set off the bells and strobes.


40 posted on 07/01/2021 2:11:31 PM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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