Collapsed a building in Miami and left at least one injured in critical condition

24/07/2018 –

A person was injured yesterday when a 13-story building being demolished in Miami Beach Florida collapsed and the authorities closed the traffic because the debris they fell on the roads surrounding the site of the event.

The Miami Beach Police Department reported that the injured person had been transferred to the Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Dan Gelber, Mayor of Miami Beach, said at a press conference that he was one of the workers in the team in charge of demolishing the company. building located at 5777 Collins Avenue. The person was identified as Samuel Landis, 46, project manager of the Fort Lauderdale demolition company.

"He is a construction worker who was demolishing the building and something went wrong," he said.

In turn, Virgil Fernández, fire chief, explained that "we found the victim in the middle of the street with serious injuries".

Firefighters contacted the demolition team and confirmed that the rest of the workers were safe.

Even so, trained dogs were used to find corpses in the rubble as a precautionary measure, said Fernandez