There are already 90 dead in Miami building collapse – News

Miami-Dade County authorities have announced that Surfside building collapse death toll rose to 90 this Sunday, after finding four other bodies.

Of the bodies found, 71 have been identified and 31 people are still missing, as Mayor Daniella Levine Cava announced at a press conference.

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Search operations are continuing 24 hours a day and “we are about to access the cars from the underground garage”Miami-Dade Fire Chief Alan Cominsky reported. Cominsky avoided giving a deadline for the completion of the transaction.

“It’s hard to give a date, but we think we can remove all the rubble,” he said, stressing: “It’s methodical work for the crews doing the hand search. is a slow job to process. “

The IDF rescue team, which assisted in the search at the request of the large Jewish community of Surfside, was due to leave the site on Sunday, Levine Cava revealed.

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The Champlain South Towers, a 12-story building built on the promenade in 1981, partially collapsed in the early morning hours of June 24.

Authorities carried out a controlled demolition of the rest of the building last week, allowing crews to advance into previously inaccessible excavation areas.

The concern was with the Champlain Towers North building, built nearby by the same developer, at the same time and with the same materials. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said the first reliability checks on this property were positive.

“The first results show that the strength of the concrete is very good, at the same level or better than it should be,” he explained, adding that further checks still need to be carried out.