Yesterday, July 11, Danielle Lavigne Kawa, Mayor of Miami-Dade County, announced the number of people found under the ruins of a collapsed house in Surfside – 90 people. About 800 rescuers are dismantling the rubble, teams from Paraguay and Israel came to the rescue. Among the missing is the sister of the wife of the […]
The collapse of a house in Miami led to the death of 24 people, 121 are still missing. Due to the expected Hurricane Elsa tomorrow, the authorities decided to demolish the remaining part of the building. An impending tropical storm in Florida forced rescuers to stop searching for people left under the rubble on Saturday […]
A student who came to visit a friend, 21-year-old Greek émigré Andreas Yannitsopoulos, died in the collapse of an apartment building in Miami. The young man studied at Vanderbilt University in Nashville (Tennessee) and came on vacation, staying with his godfather. His death is confirmed. His mother Tina Yiannitsopoulos says bitterly: My son was one […]
According to official figures, one person died, dozens went missing after collapse of a 12-storey building in Florida, it housed 130 apartments, half in the collapsed section of the building. Charles Burkett, Mayor of Surfside, says: “The house literally flattened, it collapsed. And where there was a distance of three meters between the floors, less […]
An apartment building collapsed tonight in the US state of Florida, near Miami, at the intersection of 88th Street and Collins Avenue in the coastal town of Safside. There are people under the rubble. Rescuers are looking for survivors and hope the death toll will be low as the holiday season ends. However, the authorities […]