SURFSIDE (AP) — A Surfside, Florida, official pushed back Sunday on the idea that the town was responsible for slowing down a condo board’s plans to make needed structural repairs to a building that eventually collapsed, killing dozens. Following a Miami Herald report that it took more than a month for the town to respond […]

Precarious standing part of condo to be demolished to make area safer for emergency crews, though delay in search 'devastating' for families of missing

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Demolition specialists carefully bored holes Sunday to insert explosive charges into the precarious, still-standing portion of a collapsed South Florida condo building that will come down to open up new areas for rescue teams to search. Eighty percent of the drilling work was complete, and the remaining structure could come down […]

SURFSIDE (AP) – After Lauren Miller lost her father in January to COVID-19, her longtime friend Jay Kleiman advised her not to wallow in grief and to seek counseling to ease her pain. Now she finds herself grieving again — only this time for Kleiman, one of scores of people believed to be underneath the […]

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Rescuers suspended their search for the living and the dead in the rubble of a collapsed South Florida condo building Saturday to allow crews to start preparing the unstable remainder of the structure for demolition ahead of a tropical storm. The search and rescue mission was halted in the afternoon as […]

MIAMI (AP) — It was a small moment of hope amid all the pain and devastation: a cat on Saturday was seen wandering a lower floor of the remaining flank of a 12-story condominium complex that partly collapsed near Miami. Crews hoped to place a trap on the balcony so that the feline can be […]

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Sweat poured from Isaac Meek early Friday as he finished his tribute to the lives lost in the Florida building collapse — a 10-foot-long sand sculpture of a heart that he engraved into the beach almost in the shadow of the tragedy. Using only a rake and the tip of its […]

Confirmed death toll in Florida building collapse rises to 24, with 124 still missing; authorities vow to bring down rest of crumbling structure before Tropical Storm Elsa hits

Facing rubble that buried her father and uncle, Elisheva Cohen took out her phone and began to pray, a move that captivated the Surfside mayor and led to introduction to president

NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The city of North Miami Beach ordered the evacuation of a condominium building Friday after a review found unsafe conditions. The city said in a news release that an audit prompted by the deadly collapse of Champlain Towers South in Surfside found the 156-unit Crestview Towers structurally and electrically […]