Mexico earthquake survivor asks families of those missing in Miami’s collapse for patience and hope

After last thursday a residential building facing the sea, in the American city of Miami, will partially collapse, where it was reported that at least four people died and 159 are missing, Alma Nava, A survivor of the earthquake in Mexico City on September 19, 2017, asked relatives of people who have not been located have patience and hope.

In an interview for the media Univision, the woman, who was trapped in the rubble of the building in which she lived for several hours, recalled the moments of anguish she experienced after this event.

“It’s horrible, you feel an anguish that the only thing you think about is whether I’m going to get out of here alive, or the pain I’m feeling is necessary, because it’s so ugly to be crushed, airless “the woman said in the interview for US media.

Alma was rescued by neighbors, who first reached her legs and then pulled her out. He said he was scared. “I was trying to stop myself from screaming so that the little air I had didn’t go away, and listening to someone nearby.” Although the building she lived in had already been rebuilt, Alma spent the most painful hours of her life there, unable to move.

Finally, two policemen managed to pull her completely out of the rubble. The woman sent a message to families who are waiting for loved ones who did not show up, after the Miami apartment building collapsed, asking them to have faith. “Have a lot of patience and have a lot of faith in God, for I know that faith in God is the only thing that can help us right now. I had a lot of faith in God and here I am,” Nava insists.

Like Alma, 18 other people were rescued from the rubble of the building in which he lived.

Champlain towers, Built in 1981, it is the building complex that suffered damage last Thursday, after uThe wing of the 12 story condo collapsed in the community of Surfside around 1:30 a.m.. As of the afternoon, it was still not known where nearly 100 people were located, authorities reported, raising concerns that the number of deaths could increase dramatically. Authorities did not know how many people were in the tower when it collapsed.

Teams of 10 to 12 rescuers entered the rubble with dogs and other equipment, working until they were tired of carrying heavy items, at which point they left and let in a new team. said Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis, the state fire chief.

“They won’t stop just because it’s getting darkPatronis told Miami TV WPLG. “Maybe they’re just going a different path.”

Authorities still don’t know what caused the collapse; They also did not, officially, comment on possible hypotheses that could explain what happened. Shimon Wdowinski, a professor in the Department of Lands and Environment at Florida International University, said the building, built in 1981 on reclaimed wetlands, had been unstable for a year.

A 2020 study by the researcher warned that the complex had been sinking at an alarming rate since the 1990s. He noted that during those years flowed at a rate of about 2 millimeters per year, but the sinking could have slowed down or accelerated since then.

Gerardo Feldman is an Argentinian architect based in the state of Florida. In an interview with Infobae, was categorical: “It can be seen coming”. The real estate agent said that a few years ago he was involved in an investigation into another building which, most likely, like the Champlain Towers, was built decades ago. “With beach sand”.

“It eats away at all irons and they disappear. It happens a lot in buildings near the beach (…) Formerly in the 60s and 70s they saw sand on the beach and used it to build. This sand has a lot of salt; the concrete lacks iron, it is as if it had no bones “he explained.

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