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SURFSIDE, FLORIDA( REUTERS)-The death toll from last week's condominium collapse in Florida rose on Friday( July 2) to 20 after search-and-rescue crews found two more bodies, including the seven-year-old daughter of a Miami firefighter. The grim, painstaking search for victims in the rubble, which was suspended for most of Thursday over safety concerns, proceeded on Friday with greater caution and a watchful eye on a hurricane that could strike Florida within days. There are 128 people still mis

Open this photo in gallery Crews from the United States and Israel work in the rubble Champlain Towers South condo, June 29, 2021, in Surfside, Fla.... Burkett said.In recognition of rescuers from abroad, Ms.... Levine Cava said she gave the keys to the county to the Israeli commander and colonel – her first two handed out as mayor....

close Video Criminal and civil investigations opened over Florida condo collapse Fox News correspondent Phil Keating has the latest on search and rescue efforts on' Special Report' Levine Cava, the mayor of Miami-Dade, told reporters on Wednesday that an emergency crew that has been working around the clock to find survivors in the Surfside building collapse have refused to leave the site despite being told they can go home." Our Miami-Dade County Task Force 1 members, who’ve been here since the

Wooden hearts with the names of victims are erected alongside photos, flowers, and other memorial items as visitors walk through the memorial site, in Surfside, Florida, on July 11, 2021.... Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said 90 deaths have now been confirmed in last month's collapse of the 12-story Champlain Towers South in Surfside, up from 86 a day before.... Some 31 people remain listed as missing....

He wondered whether there had been a shooting nearby but then came home to find his building being evacuated.“ They said the building is unsafe to live and it’s an immediate evacuation, ” Dauphin said, speaking outside after he’d cleared out.... He grabbed what he could — clothes, his work uniform and some electronic devices — and the two left.“ It’s unfortunate, but I understand.... Closer inspection of the missing persons list reduced the number from 145 to 126 after duplicate names were eli

Video released by the Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Department showed workers lugging pickaxes and power saws through piles of concrete rubble barbed with snapped steel rebar.... Lightning forced rescuers to pause their work for two hours early Tuesday, Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah said.... Pablo Rodriguez’s mother and his grandmother are still missing....

The number of residents unaccounted for stands at 145. Miami-Dade Police Director Freddy Ramirez said he hopes Biden’s visit will be a morale booster for the entire community.“ We’ve had several challenges from weather, sorrow, pain.... A 2018 engineering report found that the building’s ground-floor pool deck was resting on a concrete slab that had “ major structural damage ” and needed extensive repairs.... Now there’s a way for people to keep the money....

Among them are 71 bodies that have been identified, and their families have been notified, she said.... The Miami-Dade Police Department said three young children were among those recently identified. Advertisement Crews continued to search the remaining pile of rubble, peeling layer after layer of debris in search of bodies.... He said the work is so delicate that crews have found unbroken wine bottles amid the rubble.“ It doesn’t get any less difficult and finding victims, that experience do