Another body was found yesterday Monday at wreckage of a collapsed apartment building in Florida, a development that has increased the toll of the victims of the tragedy to 28 dead so far, the authorities announced, assuring that the investigations continue despite the chances of finding survivors are now “almost zero”, as an official put it.
Most of the Champlain Towers South building collapsed overnight on Surfside on June 24; it was one of the worst urban disasters in U.S. history.
As Tropical Storm Elsa approached with its strong winds, authorities decided to demolish the still standing part of the building, deeming it too unstable and could threaten the lives of rescue workers.
The controlled demolition unfolded late Sunday night “exactly as planned”, the mayor of the county of Miami-Dade, Daniela Levine Kava, summed up, during a press conference, broadcasts AMPE.
“From 01:00 (local time; 08:00 Greek time) the investigations resumed” and the crews managed to reach places that until that stage were inaccessible, he added.
Later, it was announced that another body had been found. A few hours earlier, three more had been identified. The still provisional account of the disaster amounted to 28 dead and 117 missing.
Eleven days after the collapse, the chances of survivors in the wreckage are now “almost nil,” said Golan Vak, head of Israel’s Special Rescue and Relief Unit, which is operating locally on Local 10 television.
“We try to be optimistic but at the same time realistic,” he added. “The conditions we are seeing are very difficult to say, with professionalism, that we believe there is a good chance of finding someone alive,” Vak explained.
Only one occupant of the apartment building – a teenager – was pulled alive from the rubble, the first hours after the disaster. Since then, despite the mobilization of rescue teams from the US, Israel and Mexico, only corpses have been retrieved.
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