Miami building collapse search enters sixth day

Miami building collapse search enters sixth day

Toll 11; 150 missing

AgenciesUpdated: Wednesday, June 30, 2021, 01:36 AM IST
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Surfside (Florida)

The slow work of sifting through the remnants of a collapsed Florida condo building stretched into a sixth day Tuesday, as families desperate for progress endured a wrenching wait for answers.

“We have people waiting and waiting and waiting for news,” Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters.

“We have them coping wi­th the news they might not have their loved ones come out alive and still hope agai­nst hope they will. They’re learning some of their loved ones will come out as body parts. This is the kind of information that is just excruciating for everyone.”

The work has been deliberate and treacherous.

Thunderstorms rolled through the area Tuesday morning, and debris fell onto the search area overnight from the shattered edge of the part of the building that still stands, forcing rescuers to mark a “don’t go beyond here” line and focus their efforts parts of the debris pile that are farther from the structure, Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told WSVN.

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