Death toll rises as search resumes at demolished Florida condo site
- Death toll in Surfside building collapse rises to 28, with 117 still missing
- Demolition boosts search site as approaching storm poses threat
Some 117 people remained missing after the 12-storey Champlain Towers South crumbled over a week ago in Surfside, but an Israeli search official put the chances of finding survivors at “close to zero”.
Still, crews “were in full search and rescue mode” by early Monday, hours after the remaining section of building was toppled in a haze of smoke and dust, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told a briefing.
At a later news conference she said one more body had been pulled from the rubble, raising the confirmed death toll to 28.
She said the demolition had gone according to plan and that searchers had found three more victims in the rubble after work resumed.
Levine Cava added that authorities had raised “millions of dollars, thanks to the generosity of people in this country and all around the world,” with funds to be distributed to impacted families.