Posted on 06/27/2021 9:45:51 AM PDT by USA Conservative
As search and rescue officials continue looking for more survivors in a Florida condo building’s rubble, some of the victims’ identities are being revealed.
Stacie Fang, 54, was the first victim identified by the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner. She reportedly was pronounced dead hours after the collapse at Aventura Hospital.
Many more names will be revealed in the upcoming days.
Miami-Dade County, Florida, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava confirmed that the death toll from the building collapse is currently nine people
“As of today, one victim passed away in the hospital, and we’ve recovered eight more victims on-site, so I am confirming today that the death toll is at nine,” the mayor said.
While we still don’t know how many people died when the building collapsed, a local station that was interviewing witnesses and reported about a witness who described the building collapse as earthquake’ and ‘bomb’.
WPTV-TV which is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to West Palm Beach was one of the first TV stations to arrive at the scene.
They reported that shocked and shaken witnesses described a deadly condo building collapse near Miami Beach early Thursday morning as an earthquake and bomb rolled into one.
“Earthquake, slash bomb, slash tornado,” one resident told WPTV. “I jumped up, went straight out and looked out the window. Broken glass, everything. Stuff was flying.”
That resident said there was so much smoke and dust from the collapse, he thought they were caught in the middle of a tornado.
“All of the sudden, the alarms started going off like crazy,” the resident said. “I just ran and grabbed by kids real quick. Just picked them up, pulled them out of bed and took off outside.”
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This news never made it to the mainstream media and officially the ground-floor pool deck of the oceanfront condominium building that collapsed near Miami was resting on a concrete slab that had “major structural damage” and needed to be extensively repaired, according to a 2018 engineering report that also uncovered “abundant cracking and spalling” of concrete columns, beams and walls in the parking garage.
The report was among a series of documents released by the city of Surfside as rescuers continued to dig Saturday through rubble in an effort to find any of the 156 people who remain unaccounted for after the collapse. At least five people were killed.
While the engineering report from the firm of Morabito Consultants did not warn of imminent danger from the damage — and it is unclear if any of the damage observed was responsible for the collapse — it did note the need for extensive and costly repairs to fix the systemic issues with Champlain Towers South.
The report said the waterproofing under the pool deck had failed and had been improperly laid flat instead of sloped, preventing water from draining off.
“The failed waterproofing is causing major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas. Failure to replaced the waterproofing in the near future will cause the extent of the concrete deterioration to expand exponentially,” the report said.
The firm recommended that the damaged slabs be replaced in what would be a major repair.
Some of the damage to the concrete in the parking garage was minor, while other columns had exposed and deteriorating rebar. It also noted that many of the building’s previous attempts to fix the columns and other damage with epoxy were marred by poor workmanship and were failing.
Beneath the pool deck “where the slab had been epoxy-injected, new cracks were radiating from the originally repaired cracks,” the report said.
I wonder if the report about the geologist warning about instability is bogus as well.
Do not look for rational thought or honor in this.
Lawyers are involved.
They will go after the biggest pot of money, and that will be the taxpayers.
Im wondering if the people who lived there had any idea there was a problem of any degree...
Yes, one woman whom is presumed dead, told her son a few days before the disaster that the building was making noises in the middle of the night...creaking or something like that.
Lots of things going around about people that were staying there. Strange the way it apparently went down like a professional demo. And major drug dealers family staying there at the time.
I think this has been big news. There are plenty of news reports on youtube. It might be non-stop coverage in Miami.
Here is a report of a mother and daughter who were on the 9th floor and fell to the 5th floor and got out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhKBXoObhtE
I haven’t seen anything on Mainstream Media...
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What is the Mainstream of which you speak....frankly, if you want to find anything out about it you need to go to FR and there have been numerous posts already on the collapse already with tons of links.
Here is one that came up recently... a woman woke up to noises and instantly knew that things were shifting in her condo unit and she had to get out. I think that what this says is that while the degradation had been going on for years (see engineer’s report), the final phase of the collapse was over so fast that almost no one had a chance to react.
Just wait...Trump’s fault!
Reporters all moved 2 blocks away 2 days ago. Very limited live shots from any where. Really good analysis from a guy called Builder Integrity on YT. He does make 1 correction about spanned cables of which he corrects on 2nd video. There No explanations as to what units went down. Floor plans. They barely mentioned champlain north and champlain east.
A building that has had structural problems basically ignored for years has fallen down and here come the “everything is a conspiracy” people.
Disgusting.
Actually they’ll try to pin this on DeSantis...bet on it!
Collapses happen really slowly at first, and then all at once.
Sure they did. There were lawsuits about the building. In 2018, a structural engineer pointed out things about the building that needed repair. And residents always complained about water constantly present in the parking garage.
That is exactly what it would sound like it a building lost support and collapse to the ground like that one did.
So what is the so called news in this story?
I hate to say it, but give credit where it’s due: CNN covers things like this really well. They covered that Malaysian airliner mystery almost non-stop for a year.
Mcaffe dontchya know
Like a bone to chew? What are the big stories they’ve covered nonstop for long periods of time?
It seems like the last time I watched a lot of CNN was in 1996 when the TWA 800 flight went down and then the Atlanta Olympic Park bombing happened. I’ve been an internet junkie ever since.
Last night, I clicked on a link to a CNN interview with the son of one of the missing from this horrible building collapse. The reporterette was trying to be compassionate and caring while also getting to the meat of the interview which was about the mom waking up during the night due to the sounds she heard and then not being able to sleep any more. I wanted to hear what he had to say, but it felt ghoulish of me and the reporterette. The son was telling about how the family had just gone to visit his brother in DC where his brother lives and works and that they came home and were soon to celebrate his grandma’s birthday. (she’s also missing.) The son was very well spoken and willing to continue talking.
Just a horrible event.
There wasn’t an earthquake and there wasn’t a bomb.
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