SURFSIDE, Fla.– City officials chose to destroy the staying part of Champlain Towers South with dynamites as quickly as Sunday, accelerating their plans due to an approaching hurricane.
Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava stated she made the tough decision, stabilizing the need to keep looking for victims and investigate the collapse with the need to secure rescue workers and area residents from more damage if the structure were to fall. Officials had anticipated to take weeks preparing a systematic removal of the remaining structure.
“The worry was the hurricane might take it down for us and take it down in the incorrect instructions,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said.
Search-and-rescue employees recuperated 2 extra bodies overnight at the partly collapsed condominium building in Surfside, bringing the death toll to 24 with about 120 still unaccounted for.
The rescue effort— now in its 10th day– has been painstaking, authorities stated, offered the unsteady nature of the collapsed debris of the 13-story tower and concerns about the stability of the structure still standing at the Champlain Towers South complex. The search was postponed for roughly 14 hours Thursday due to moving in the standing structure. It has actually been even more complicated by fire breaking out in the particles and frequent rain.