FL- 12 Story Condo Partial Building Collapse, many still unaccounted for, Miami, 24 June 2021 #2

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#BREAKING: A fire official says the death toll in the Florida condo building collapse has risen to 46 after workers discovered 10 more victims. More: https://bit.ly/3qQfTex

Ezzy Castro
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(AP) -- Surfside death toll now at 46. Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah said workers had pulled 10 more bodies and additional human remains from the rubble.

 

[dixiegirl1035]

10 More Victims Found in Surfside Rubble, Bringing Death Toll to 46

Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Ray Jadallah told family members in a private briefing Wednesday that workers had pulled 10 more bodies from the rubble and additional human remains. Jadallah said only 32 victims have been identified.

Crews have removed 124 tons of debris from the site, Cominsky said. The debris was being sorted and stored in a warehouse as potential evidence in the investigation into why the building collapsed, officials said.

 

[PayrollNerd]

I am pleased to see the pace is picking up in regards to locating remains. The sooner the surviving family receives their loved one, the better. Blessings to all. My goodness this is heartbreaking. Infuriating too. These poor families must be headed out of the denial stage at this point and moving on to anger. Prayers for them that they can find peace.

 

[ilovewings]

I am pleased to see the pace is picking up in regards to locating remains. The sooner the surviving family receives their loved one, the better. Blessings to all. My goodness this is heartbreaking. Infuriating too. These poor families must be headed out of the denial stage at this point and moving on to anger. Prayers for them that they can find peace.

The people who are working so hard day and night looking for survivors, and finding only remains, will most likely need counseling after they are done here. I don't think we can even begin to understand how difficult and emotionally draining this is for them. I think they have to turn off a certain portion of their emotions to be able to do what they are doing, but after the job is done, they will be flooded with so many feelings, it will be difficult to cope.

 

[Hope32]

The person that lived on the top floor was Richard (Dick) Augustine who is missing and was hosting his late wife's friend Elaine Sabino who is also missing.

Luis Fernando Barth Luis Fernando Barth, 51, wife Catalina Gómez, 44, and 14-year-old daughter Valeria Barth from Colombia were visiting Miami to get their COVID-19 vaccinations; they had received their second doses and were ready to head home.

Nicole Doran-Manashirov Dr. Ruslan Manashirov and Nicole Manashirov, who were married in Davie just eight weeks ago, postponed their wedding three times during the pandemic, according to the Pittsburgh-Gazette. Ruslan, a general practitioner in Palmetto Bay, and Nicole, a physician assistant at Aventura Hosptial’s emergency department, moved into their condo in April.

Vishal Patel Vishal Patel and his wife, Bhavna, and their 1-year-old daughter, Aishani were together at the Champlain Towers. Wife Bhavna is pregnant, according to a family member’s tweet.

Cassondra Stratton Cassie Stratton, a model, actress and Pilates instructor, split her time between Miami and New York. Her husband Mike was on a business trip to Washington, D.C. when he got a call from her early Thursday morning. Frantic, she told him the condo building where they’d lived for four years was shaking and that she saw a sinkhole where the pool used to be. Then the line went dead.

Harry Rosenberg Harry Rosenberg, 52, just bought his second floor unit last month after a difficult year. He rented a few apartments in the area before settling on this building, ultimately because it had more space for family to visit. His daughter and son-in-law were both visiting at the time of the collapse and are both still missing.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article252362358.html

 

[Chelly]

Condo Collapse Shows Surfside's Rich, Middle-Class Division

 

[Hope32]

46 recovered, 32 identified
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article252362358.html
Mods delete if needed, but a list of those that have been recovered:
- Maricoy Obias-Bonnefoy 69 Unit 1001
-Claudio Bonnefoy Bachelet, 85 Unit 1001
-Christina Beatriz Elvira Oliwkowicz 74 (7th floor by elevators)
-Leon Oliwkowicz 80 (7th floor by elevators)
-Ana Ortiz 46 (7th floor) [Nancy Levin, Jay Kleinman missing]
- Luis Andres Bermudez (7th floor)
-Frankie Kleinman 55 (7th floor)
-Gonzalo Torre 81 (9th floor end unit)
- Ingrid Ainsworth 66 (Not known)
-Tzvi Ainsworth 68 (Not Known
-Michael David Altman 50 Unit 1101
-Graciela Cattarossi 48 Unit 501 (Andrea Cattarossi missing)
-Stella Cattarossi 7 Unit 501
-Magaly Elena Delgado 80 (9th floor)
-Bonnie Epstein 56 (9th Floor North End Unit)
-David Epstein 58 (9th Floor North End Unit)
-Stacie Fang 54 (10th Floor)
- Andreas Giannitsopoulos 21 Unit 801
- Manuel LaFont 54 Unit 801
- Emma Guara 4 (8th Floor)
- Lucia Guara 10 (8th Floor)
- Marcus Joseph Guara 52 (8th Floor)
- Anaely Rodriguez 42 (8th floor)(mother of Guara's)
- Antonio Lozano 83 (9th floor)
- Gladys Lozano 79 (9th Floor)
- Hilda Noriega 92 (6th floor)
- Nancy Levin, 76 (7th floor)
- Jay Kleinman, 52 (7th floor)
- Francis R. Fernandez Plasencia 67 Unit 411

3 more have been released:
- Graciella Catarossi, 86 Unit 501 (former Uruguayan diplomat)
- Gino Catarossi, 89 Unit 501
- Simon Segal, 80 (9th floor penthouse)

 

[PayrollNerd]

Condo Collapse Shows Surfside's Rich, Middle-Class Division

If this property is sold and again, condos are built, with the limit of 12 floors, they're going to want to have as high of profit as possible. It is up to the locals and the county/city leadership to force developers to include a certain percentage of units for lower income buyers. It can be done. Selling 10 small units at $500,000 and the rest of the regular size units at $5,000,000 is not uncommon in some localities. You need leadership with a backbone to stand up to developers, a strong, legally well written county/city requirement and ethical leaders who won't take a bribe. It can be done.

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The condo tower collapse in Surfside could exacerbate the division that already exists between the tiny Florida town’s new luxury buildings built for the global elite and those constructed decades ago for the middle class. It is already creating headaches for some small businesses.

The town has seen the construction of numerous new condos in recent years, where large oceanfront units exceeding 3,000 square feet (280 square meters) with modern amenities can fetch $10 million and up. Meanwhile, small units of 800 square feet (75 square meters) in neighboring condo buildings constructed decades ago can be had for $400,000.

 

[SoBu]

Article about a resident (owner) with structural engineering background who died in the collapse. If he wasn’t worried about living there, the risk of a catastrophe understandably must not have been on most residents minds. We read the reports now with an entirely different perspective, of course.

In a tragic irony, man who devoted life to structural engineering among dead in Surfside collapse

 

[Hope32]

3 more have been released:
- Graciella Catarossi, 86 Unit 501 (former Uruguayan diplomat)
- Gino Catarossi, 89 Unit 501
- Simon Segal, 80 (9th floor penthouse)

Simon Segal
Not sure what floor he really was on.. NY Times has him on the 9th floor, but the Miami Herald now has him listed as 1203.
Miami Herald also has Richard Augustine listed as living on the top floor. (although diagrams showed that only the massive Penthouse on the top floor was one that came down.

 

[Hope32]

Finally found a good diagram of unit numbers. Sorry if it has been posted before I haven't seen it before and I have been trying to figure out all the info
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/victims-survivors-surfside-condo-collapse/

Basically it goes in a circle with 01 being in the top right and going counterclockwise for numbering

 

[LadyL]

10 more bodies recovered; emotional toll of collapse mounts

 

[margarita25]

 

[sds71]

So many lawsuits are being filed in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse that it threatens to overwhelm the court system.

To avoid that, the courthouse in Miami is organizing all the cases to be heard by one judge in one courtroom...

The judge on Wednesday urged the slew of attorneys to pick someone to lead the pack.

“I got the best of the bar here but not everybody can have a leadership role and the faster you all realize that and try to reach some consensus, the faster we can move this along and try to get the victims some compensation,” Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman told the lawyers lined up before him.

Hanzman said the doomed building’s $48 million insurance coverage will likely fall far short of compensating victims of the collapse, in which 46 people have been confirmed dead and 94 remain missing.


Lawyers line up to make Surfside condo claims for clients

Florida building collapse lawsuits already piling up

 

[sds71]

Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah told families on Wednesday that after searching all areas of debris, they have concluded that it will now be next to impossible to find people alive.

The decision to transition to a recovery effort starting Wednesday night came after rescuers finished searching new areas of rubble that became accessible after workers demolished the still-standing portion of Champlain Towers South.

Rescuers had hoped to find pockets where people could have survived in the new areas. Instead, they found more than a dozen victims, many of them dead in their beds.

Search of collapsed Surfside condo shifts from rescue to recovery | WFLA

 

[Chelly]

So many lawsuits are being filed in the wake of the Surfside condo collapse that it threatens to overwhelm the court system.

To avoid that, the courthouse in Miami is organizing all the cases to be heard by one judge in one courtroom...

The judge on Wednesday urged the slew of attorneys to pick someone to lead the pack.

“I got the best of the bar here but not everybody can have a leadership role and the faster you all realize that and try to reach some consensus, the faster we can move this along and try to get the victims some compensation,” Circuit Judge Michael Hanzman told the lawyers lined up before him.

Hanzman said the doomed building’s $48 million insurance coverage will likely fall far short of compensating victims of the collapse, in which 46 people have been confirmed dead and 94 remain missing.


Lawyers line up to make Surfside condo claims for clients

Florida building collapse lawsuits already piling up

This sounds like an interesting story to follow.

 

[Eloise]

Live Updates: Search for Survivors Is Ended in Florida Condo Collapse

 

[sds71]

(AP) -- Miami-Dade mayor: 8 more bodies recovered from site of collapsed Florida condo building, bringing death toll to 54.


@fox_sheldon

Collapse will be investigated by a Grand Jury, per Miami-Dade State Attorney

 

[SouthAussie]

Live Updates: Search for Survivors Is Ended in Florida Condo Collapse

From the article ... the families were advised of this in a private meeting on Wednesday afternoon. With rescue crews acknowledging that after nearly two weeks, the chance of survival was zero. Chief Jadallah, FEMA and the Israel team are all in agreeance. The families need closure.

A woman at the private meeting thanked the search and rescue effort, and the room erupted in applause.

Another family member said ..... the rescue teams had been “exemplary” in their efforts. “They left nothing to chance,” he said. “Nothing. Every opportunity that they could to do something, they took advantage of it, every single thing.”

 

[GatorFL]

There have been crews from lots of fire departments from Palm Beach, Broward and Miami Dade counties helping in the search. The searchers have been working their tails off through heat, heavy rain and thunderstorms, day and night to try and find survivors. Local news story from a few minutes ago was a tearjerker.