Entire family found dead after Miami collapse

Other victims were rescued from the rubble of the building Champlain Tours in Surfside, Miami, It collapsed a week ago, but this time among the dead were the first children, aged 4 and 10.

Daniella Levine Cava, the mayor of Miami-Dade, made the announcement on Wednesday. “It is with great regret that he informed them that the total number of victims is now 18, two of whom are girls aged 4 and 10,” said the mayor.

The girls were identified as Lucie Guara, 10 years old and Emma Guara, of 4. The remains of his mother, Anaely Rodriguez, 42, were also found on Wednesday when the body of his father, Marcus Guara, 52, were removed from the rubble on Saturday and identified on Monday.

The family lived on the 8th floor of the 12 story Surfside building. They are the first deceased miners to be found in the rubble of the collapse.

Marcus GuaraThe 52-year-old had just started a new job in November as a regional sales manager at Kassatex New York, a maker of towels, bedding and other textiles, according to his social media posts. He had had a string of sales jobs since graduating from the University of Miami in 1990, as Linked In reported.

His Facebook account was dominated by family photos and posts to raise funds for charities, particularly for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Association and St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

For years, the Guara family had attended church a short distance from the now ruined building. Of Catholic faith, the eldest daughter made her First Communion in this temple in 2019; three years earlier, they had baptized the youngest, Emma.

In November, he wrote on Facebook that his “pride was overwhelming” when Lucia asked him to send a letter to St. Jude Hospital with his savings because “they need them more than I do.”

Earlier this week, when the tragic outcome was still unknown, a classmate of the sisters opened a GoFundMe page for the Guara family. “I can’t even begin to describe how terrible it was,” 11-year-old Navah Lisman wrote of the building collapse.

So far there are 18 deaths confirmed the collapse of the building, while the search for more than 140 missing people continues.

The swimming pool, at the center of the stage

For the past week, rescuers have worked tirelessly to search for victims in the rubble of the partially collapsed 12-story building in Miami. So far, there have been 18 deaths and more than 140 people are still missing, including 9 Argentines.

New hypotheses are emerging on the causes of this urban disaster in the United States. One of them points to the damage that existed in the swimming pool of the Tour Champlain Sud condominium, built 40 years ago.

In the last few hours, witnesses have assured that part of the pool and the parking lot on the street would have collapsed a few minutes before the collapse. A woman reportedly saw the structure of the swimming pool and the garage below collapse.

Apparently, the problem had been reported in 2018: standing water on the terrace damaged the concrete slab below. Engineers noticed that it was poorly constructed. This situation is said to have worsened over the years.