Judge rejected pet search request before Miami apartment building was demolished

A woman made a request from the podium for rescue a pet that has washed up in the remains of the building Champal Towers Soth, which they denied. On the night of Sunday, July 4, authorities detonated charges inserted into holes drilled in the still standing portion of the Surfside condo.

Lawyer Paula phillips, legal representative of Stacey karron, made the request on the Miami-Dade circuit on Sunday at 9:30 p.m., in which they asked to enter the building to save a pet, whose race is however unknown they assume it would be Coco, a cat who lived on the fourth floor with an 89-year-old woman and her daughter, according to information from Miami Herald.

“They understand the risk. They understand that the building can collapse at any time “, Tried to argue the lawyer Phillips.

The judge Michael Hanzman rejected the request and said he did not want to stop the decision to demolish the building.. The hearing ended around 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, and around 10:30 p.m. the explosives exploded.

“My goal was to go there and try to save the animals if they let me. I have experience rescuing animals and volunteered to entercommented Karron.

During the hearing, the lawyer David Murray objected to Karron’s idea, arguing that the building was already loaded with explosives and that in order for her to enter it, heRescue teams would have to risk their lives even more as they would be forced to return to eliminate the detonations.

According to the newspaper New York Post, Murray commented that the county had made various efforts to save the surviving animals. since the collapse of June 24.

The mayor Levine Cava reported that rescuers They did not find any pets as they thoroughly searched the remaining building, including three full scans, using animal life traps and thermal technology.

On the other hand, Dahlia Kanes, director of the Miami Coalition Against Breed Specific Legislation, said her organization believes several dogs and cats, a guinea pig and a few parakeets were trapped in the building. Kanes told the Miami Herald that hI had spoken with a woman who had yet to find her dog and her two cats, who were in the living room when the building collapsed.

The causes of the Champlain Towers collapse are under investigation, which a legal battle has startedl seeking compensation for the damage suffered by certain residents of the apartment building, built in 1981. The building association’s board of directors said it would appoint an “independent director to oversee the legal process and claims.”.

As documents in the archives of the Surfside Mayor’s Office show, the building had structural problems which were detected in 2018 by an engineering firm and whose costly recommended repairs had not been fully taken into account.

The provisional number of missing due to the partial collapse of the apartment building was 118, while the number of people located is 191, according to recent official accounts.

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