"I walked out with my pajamas and my phone.". "We're lucky to be here.". 'Like it had been hit by a missile': Residents who survived the collapse describe being inside. It's still unclear what caused the condominium, which has withstood decades of hurricanes, to partially collapse. Instead she's been sleeping in a chair, constantly thinking of the victims who couldn't escape. 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Fires have flared up throughout the day, adding to the danger for the search and rescue teams, according to the official. And it's just overwhelming, really.". That was a very difficult night, Scheinhaus said. Praying that the building didnt fall on me, collapse on me. And it was just a lot - what looked like smoke, which must've been dust. (Sara Nir) RIGHT: A bedroom in the Nir's apartment, Unit 111, before the collapse . An investigation by USA Today found that at least nine of the 98 people killed in the tragedy initially survived the June 24 collapse, including one woman who was possibly still alive under the rubble 10 hours later. The announcement came after search and rescue operations were paused for hours because of growing signs the structure was dangerously unstable. ", "It's a tremendous tragedy," he said, after taking a moment to collect himself. (CNN) After several weeks of searching and waiting for news on victims from the Champlain Towers South condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida, A class-action complaint updated on Nov. 10 alleges that the towers were badly damaged and destabilized because of, A total of 98 people died when the building, Over a month after a condominium complex near Miami abruptly collapsed overnight, local officials said Monday theyve identified the remains of a final missing person, sending the disasters overall death toll to. "I don't have anything," said the 62-year-old survivor of the condominium . Fire-rescue logs obtained by the paper showed that search dogs found signs of life in the Champlain Towers South wreckage site multiple times in the hours after the 1:25 a.m. collapse. I went with the people. They were both identified by the Miami-Dade Police Department on June 26. MIAMI (CBSMiami) - For the fortunate who survived the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in late June, getting basic help early on was simple. Families deserve to know what really happened to their loved ones. Rescue teams have tunneled into an underground parking lot for the condo building, creating a 125ft-long trench in an attempt to find air pockets in which people may have survived. Rescue workers continued digging feverishly for a sixth day Tuesday, after stressing Monday that they could still find survivors in the rubble of a collapsed Surfside condo building. Can you tell us what happened? I thought, oh, tomorrow on the news, we're going to hear about, you know, tremors in Florida. ALVAREZ: I was in bed, and I heard a tremor. A Haitian man once survived for two weeks within the wreckage of a building after a . NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Susana Alvarez, who lived on the 10th floor of the building that collapsed in Surfside, Florida. I could hear them screaming. I won't leave. It just makes us really grateful, but also sad. It's just so emotional. With Eyal traveling for work often, Gabe told CBS News he decided to live with his mom and teen sister to help them out. That was a very difficult night, Scheinhaus said. Initially, 150 people were thought to be missing. "It's very hard for us to even think about these people that are not there with us anymore," he said. Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Paolo Longobardi speaks about escaping the collapsed building in Surfside, Fla. on "Good Morning America," June 25, 2021. Sadly, no one . At least four people have been confirmed dead and 159 others remain unaccounted for. "The building swayed like a sheet of paper. So far, one person is confirmed dead, 11 are injured and 99 people . (AP), OFFICIALS PLANNING FOR LIKELY DEMOLITION OF REMAINING STRUCTURE. I mean, this doesn't just happen. 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There was light, but it was the eeriness of it. Steven Rosenthalwasasleepin a corner unit of the12-story Champlain Towers South buildingthat collapsed last Thursday when he heard the loudest thunderclap times a hundred that I ever heard in my life.. I want major answers. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories. I mean, I know that sounds silly, but that's all I want, my cat back. "The whole bedroom was shaking so violently that, honestly, I was prepared for the whole building to come down," Janette Aguero added. Rest of collapsed Miami tower brought down with explosives; 121 still missing. ALVAREZ: I was only thinking of myself. (AP). Nicholas Balboa said he had been walking his dog past midnight on June 24 when he felt the ground shake and saw that a major section of the condo complex had collapsed. I could hear people crying and screaming for help, Lopez told the Herald. The couple fled down the emergencystairwell, but couldn't open the lobby door. He was obviously sleeping, Balboa said two weeks ago. During times like this, they are very good. Just because the body gets mangled doesnt mean thats what killed you, Caprara said. Their condo in Surfside had collapsed, and they had just narrowly survived. "Of course, it's not ruled out," she added. Condo building's collapse prompts historic search-and-rescue response 4:54 p.m. It was about the life that I had there. But her mother, Angela Gonzalez, and her sister, Deven Gonzalez, did survive. Rescuers are in a desperate bid to try and find survivors in Surfside, Fla., amid the wreckage of the Champlain Towers condo building. I think that it was a progressive evolution, and every hour that went by, we continued to add resources.. "I feel like I'm mourning every minute for someone in the building," she said. Dubai-based DAMAC Properties won a $120 million bid to acquire the 1.8 acres. Thats how we got out.. The Associated Press reported that the $1 billion settlement would come from several sources, including insurance companies, engineering companies and a luxury condominium that had recently been built next door. Copyright 2023 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. "When we measure subsidence or when we see movement of the buildings, it's worth checking why it happens," Wdowinski, who analyzed space-based radar data, said in a statement Thursday. I wish I had had different shoes on, he said, noting he was wearing flip flops at the time. . Alfredo Lopez and his wife describe how they escaped the crumbling Champlain Towers South on June 24, 2021. I only care about the cat. Im like, All right, Im in the middle of it. And I hear car alarms going off, I see lights flashing everywhere. I had just taken all of my mother's pictures - all the pictures of our family to that condo two days before that because I was going to sort them all out. It was like 'Titanic,'" she said. But, The June 24 collapse killed 97 people 96 bodies were pulled from the debris and one died at a hospital after being removed and. She said she believed she is only one of two people from her floor who survived. While delayed maintenance and structural complications are widely considered the cause of the collapse, manyquestions about the disasterstill remain. Im in a dream in California. The apartments were gone.. Nicholas Balboa was walking his dog around midnight when he felt the ground shake. In May:DeSantis signs condo reform bill a response to Surfside building collapse into law. (AP), LIVE UPDATES: SURFSIDE CONDO BUILDING COLLAPSE. Schechter, whose home is in a part of the building that is still standing, said she was asleep when she began hearing noises that were followed by shaking and rumbling. "My initial reaction is wow, we were so lucky. We talked aboutitand we say it's about 15 feet that we survived by, if we had been 15 feet to the right, it would have gone down, or half of the apartment would have gone down," Aguero said. All Rights Reserved. And a warning, this is a harrowing conversation but an important one. The final missing person in the condominium building collapse in Surfside, Florida has been recovered and identified, according to the Miami-Dade County mayor. Switchboard: (305) 751-6692 People stand at the Surfside Community Center where authorities are taking residents and relatives from a partially collapsed building in Surfside near Miami Beach, Fla., June 24, 2021. Direktor noted that he hadn't been warned of any structural issues with the building or about the land it was built on. And then we - I don't know where I came out to, but there were cars that were all, you know, with rocks and stuff on them, crashed. They then descended to the garage where they encountered shin-deep water, ultimatelyescaping Alfredo with a woman frozen from shock hoisted over his shoulder through an opening in acrumbled wall. July 23, 2021 / 11:29 PM / AP. But subsidence, or the gradual sinking of land, likely would not on its own cause a building to collapse, according to Wdowinski, whose expertise is in space geodesy, natural hazards and sea level rise. The action authorizes the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) "to coordinate all disaster relief efforts which have the purpose of alleviating the hardship and suffering caused by the emergency on the local population, and to provide appropriate assistance for required emergency measures, authorized under Title V of the Stafford Act, to save lives and to protect property and public health and safety, and to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in Miami-Dade County," according to a statement from the White House. What we know about the building that partially collapsed in Surfside, Florida. When I opened the door to my apartment, it leads to a long hallway, and all I saw was debris, Osin-Cohen told"Today. Rodriguez helped neighbors escape to a second-floor balcony where firefighters helped them to the ground. The official also told ABC News it's been difficult to determine how many people were in the collapsed section of the building, partly due to the fact that there isn't an on-scene management company that keeps track. This story has been shared 155,909 times. The identification brings the total death toll to. And there was an older lady and they were helping us out of the rubble. When part of the 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed early Thursday, it left a pile of rubble where the beachside residences once stood. The 12-story residential complex in the small, beachside town of Surfside, about 6 miles north of Miami Beach, partially collapsed before 1:30 a.m. local time on Thursday. We're here! "I looked to my left and half of the apartment is gone, look forward and the elevator shaft is there and there's no elevator, it's just two holes," Aguero told NBC South Florida. ", Longobardi, who is a civil engineer, said they found a staircase that was completely intact and he quickly checked for cracks or other signs of damage before they used it to escape. 1401 79th Street Causeway Son shares how family survived Surfside condo building collapse 03:11 About six months ago, the Nir family moved to Surfside, Florida. The family's condo was on the ninth floor of the 12-story Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Florida. GARCIA-NAVARRO: But you know if you'd done that, you might have lost your life. I also want you to know that that couple - that they keep saying in the news that 1001 - it's a man and his wife - that the niece was visiting them - they were the nicest people, the nicest people, were always - I'm by myself. And the fire escape door wouldn't open, but I saw people on the other side, and I banged. "People didn't want to answer they didn't know what was going on outside.". That complete side of the building was not there, Mariantold the Miami Herald. Searchers for a second day combed through the massive pile of debris following the collapse of a Florida condo building, as officials vowed to keep looking for anyone who may still . As the search for survivors enters itsfifth day,those who escaped are recounting harrowingtales of survival after last weeks condo collapse in Surfside. But her mother, Angela Gonzalez, and her sister, Deven Gonzalez, did survive. Usually it's hard for me to sleep because you have the screaming echoing in my mind and it just brings those flashbacks. GARCIA-NAVARRO: It doesn't sound silly. As of Friday, some 159 people were still unaccounted for following the collapse of the northeast section of Champlain Towers early Thursday morning, and four people have . The couple said their 22-year-old son and 14-year-old daughter were "mere feet away" from the part of the building that collapsed. "They are going to basically have to start all over again," Capponi said. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. What we know about the building collapse so far. About four hours later, he checked his phone and found out what had happened to his home and neighbors. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. "I lost everything," Alvarez said, "and it doesnt mean anything to me.". Thanks for contacting us. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at www.npr.org for further information. When you start hitting seven days, that really goes down." Survival depends on several factors - mainly access to air and water, ability to regulate body temperature, pre-existing health conditions, injuries sustained during the collapse, and mental will to live. I mean, the bed was shaking. The images that I saw looks like some place that had a bomb, Figueiredo said. And their daughter was staying there. Hes based in Tallahassee. Gabriel Nir narrowly escaped a first-floor apartment with his mother and 15-year-old sister. Albert Aguero (top left), his wife Janette Aguero (bottom right), his son Justin Willis (top right) and his daughter Athena Aguero (bottom left) speak to ABC News for an interview on "Good Morning America" in Surfside, Fla. on June 25, 2021. A pool contractor who visited the building just two days before the collapse took photographs showing a wet floor, cracked concrete and severely corroded reinforcing steel in the building's pool equipment room, CBS News' David Begnaud reported. Its a miracle. Yes. The report from the firm of Morabito Consultants said the ground-floor pool deck was resting on a concrete slab that had major structural damage and needed to be extensively repaired, and uncovered abundant cracking and spalling of concrete columns, beams and walls in the parking garage. "There is a chance that someone or some people can still survive this. Once in her apartment, they made their way to the balcony and flagged down firefighters who rescued them. A class-action complaint updated on Nov. 10 alleges that the towers were badly damaged and destabilized because of excavation and construction at the neighboring 18-story Eighty Seven Park condominium, according to court documents. When they opened their door, they sawsky and beach where their neighbors doors had once stood. 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A 2020 study conducted by Shimon Wdowinski, a professor at Florida International University's Institute of Environment in Miami, found signs of land subsidence in from 1993 to 1999 in the area where the Champlain Towers South condominium is located. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency in Miami-Dade County "to provide assistance for the families impacted by the Surfside tragedy," according to the order issued Thursday evening. Sara picked up Gabe on her way home and they all arrived back at the building just before 1 a.m., he said. They have no luggage. Sharon Schechter, 60, described her escape to WPLG , saying she believes she was only one of two people who survived from her floor when the 12-story oceanfront Champlain Towers South near Miami partially . The uncle of a 15-year-old who survived the Champlain Towers South collapse in Surfside, Florida, two weeks ago called the man who found the teenager in the rubble to thank him. "It felt like the whole building was shaking," Schechter said, adding that she went to look out the window. Discovery Company. At 11:05 a.m., about 10hours after the condo caved-in, the logs noted that rescuers lost voice contactwith a female victim and requested backup and canines to scour the basement. It was like a sandstorm. An eyeglass store refilled her prescription, even though she never called it in. 00:25. or redistributed. Reach him at JDelgado@gannett.com. Only three survived the initial collapse. GARCIA-NAVARRO: It sounds like it was a very good community. Its so difficult to put into words because of the people that are there, but Im grateful to be alive, he said. From the man who hugged me when I went out there to that beach, and I was all alone out there - and I have no idea who he was - to the security guard in the building next door - the luxury building next door who came out and grabbed me and said, you're coming with me. A total of 98 people died when the building partially collapsed on June 24, 2021. GARCIA-NAVARRO: Susana, I'm so sorry for everything you've lost. The Associated Press contributed to this story. Market data provided by Factset. Then their bedroom began to shake. The remains belonged to, The final missing person in the condominium building collapse in Surfside, Florida has been recovered and identified, according to the Miami-Dade County mayor. All my friends were giving me luggage and clothes and things. Most people who have contacted his nonprofit for help lived in the part that is still standing but assume their homes and anything inside are a complete loss. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava speaks to ABC News for an interview on "Good Morning America" on June 25, 2021. About the . He thought the ordeal could not be real, but he said he knew it was real when dust fell on his face and saw more of it out of his window. Susana Alvarez fled her home on the 10th floor of Champlain Towers South, escaping with her life and almost nothing else. And I - my apartment is in the front of the building, and it's right across the elevators. And it felt like the longest thunder I had ever heard in my life. The flooded garage was located underneath the building's pool. Albert Aguero and his family had asimilarclose call. Yes. Did you encounter any technical issues? The Miami Herald, in a multimedia investigative story,reported last December that the collapse beganwhen the ground-floor parking area and pool deck caved in, and found that design failures, shoddy construction, damage and neglect over the past 40 years lined up like dominoes to create the perfect conditions for a deadly chain reaction.. And there was water - a lot of water. Its the only way they can heal.. But I am homeless right now. As of Thursday . GARCIA-NAVARRO: It sounds like you want answers. "That number is way up from the original count, and so we're very, very grateful for the hard work of our firefighters on the scene," Levine Cava told ABC News' Cecelia Vega in an interview Friday on "GMA.
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