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    Photos: Crews comb rubble of collapsed Florida condo, 159 unaccounted for

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    Photos: Crews comb rubble of collapsed Florida condo, 159 unaccounted for

    The collapse destroyed 55 of the building's 136 units without warning

    Published:  June 25, 2021 16:03 AFP
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    Surfside: Rescue teams early Friday combed through the rubble of an oceanfront apartment block near Miami Beach that partially collapsed, killing at least seven and leaving another 99 unaccounted for amid fears of a much higher death toll. Image Credit: AFP
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    A portion of the 12-story condo tower crumbled to the ground. | An unknown number of residents are feared to have been asleep in the 12-story building, in the town of Surfside, when the collapse in the wee hours of Thursday morning reduced a large portion of it to a pile of debris, exposing the interiors of gutted apartments. Image Credit: AFP
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    People look at a portion of the building that partially collapsed. | "One side of the building just fell completely. It doesn't exist anymore," said Nicolas Fernandez, 29, an Argentinian resident of Miami who had yet to hear from friends who were staying overnight in his family's unit in the building. "I don't know about them. I don't know if they are alive," he told AFP. Image Credit: AFP
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    A Fire Rescue person and a K-9 continue the search and rescue operations. | Authorities said they were still without news of 99 people who may have been inside the building when part of it came crashing down. So far 102 others have been accounted for, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said. Search and rescue teams with sniffer dogs were set to work through Thursday night, Levine Cava said. "As the day comes to an end, their day does not," she said at an evening news conference, the last until Friday morning. Image Credit: AFP
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    During Friday's early hours, President Joe Biden declared an emergency, ordering federal assistance for the local relief effort. "The President's action authorizes the Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), to coordinate all disaster relief efforts," the White House said in a statement. Image Credit: AFP
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    At a Surfside community center, relatives of the missing cried as they waited for news. Tenants of the ruined building who were lucky enough to have been away when disaster struck pondered sudden homelessness. Around 55 apartments were affected by the collapse, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Assistant Chief Ray Jadallah, who told a news conference that emergency services arrived at the scene at around 1:30 am, evacuating 35 people from the building. Image Credit: AFP
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    The building was occupied by a mix of full-time and seasonal residents and renters, and officials have stressed it is unclear how many people were actually inside at the time. "It's hard to get a count on it," Miami-Dade County Commissioner Sally Heyman told CNN. "You don't know between vacations or anything else," she said. "The hope is still there, but it's waning." Image Credit: AFP
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    Some residents were able to walk down the stairs to safety while others had to be rescued from their balconies. One death was confirmed by Surfside mayor Charles Burkett, and Heyman said 14 survivors had been recovered from the rubble. As hope receded of finding more survivors, the focus was on the recovery of possible victims amid the rubble, in a massive operation assisted by drones and dogs and involving dozens of police and firefighter units. Image Credit: AFP
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    Fernandez, the Argentinian resident of Miami, said that when his mother called him in the early hours to say the building had collapsed, he thought it was a joke - and hung up. "She calls me again and tells me: 'Nico, you know I would never joke about this. I need you to go over there.' We came running." Image Credit: AFP
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    Local media said records showed the block was built in 1981 and had more than 130 units inside. Heyman told CNN the building had been undergoing construction work on its roof, although she also stressed the reasons for the collapse were not clear. Image Credit: AFP
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    A portion of the 12-story condo tower crumbled to the ground during a partial collapse of the building on June 24, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. Image Credit: AFP
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