The death toll from the collapse Apartments in miami area Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava (Daniella Levine Cava) said that as staff continued to search for human remains in the wreckage of the building, the number rose from 86 to 90 on Sunday.
Levine Cava said at the briefing that 31 people “may be missing”.
She said that although there is concern that many people have been killed in the concrete and reinforced rubble of the 12-story Surfside beach building that partially collapsed in the early hours of June 24, some of the missing persons were discovered through detective work.
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Although only four other bodies were found, the list of “unaccounted for” has dropped by 12 since Saturday.
Levin Kava said: “Our detectives are continuing to make progress in their audits and their diligent efforts, researching and verifying all reports on the missing list, and working with family members to open police reports of missing persons.”
Since the first few hours after the collapse, no survivors have been rescued from the rubble, and officials announced last week that their search efforts have shifted from rescue to rescue.
Levine Cava said that there were only a few safety-related pauses, and workers worked around the clock and had removed 14 million pounds (6,350 tons) of concrete and debris from the site.
The mayor of Surfside, Charles Burkett, said that debris that was once four to five stories high has been reduced to the ground where some workers saw cars in underground parking lots.
Burkert said that while the search team carefully screened the wreckage, they had been paying attention to the personal belongings being cataloged and returned to the victims’ families.
“The work is still so delicate, we even found complete wine bottles in the rubble and recovered them,” he added.
Investigators have not yet determined what caused the 40-year-old part of Champlain Tann to fall apart without warning. Attention has been focused on an engineering report in 2018 that warned of structural deficiencies.
The local prosecutor Katherine Fernandez Rundle (Katherine Fernandez Rundle) said last week that the incumbent grand jury agreed to “study how to prevent such disasters from recurring in coastal buildings”, and the findings will be published in the report. .
She added that after Hurricane Andrew devastated the area in 1992, the work of the Dade County grand jury led to improvements in building codes.
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The collapse has triggered scrutiny of other buildings. Residents of the nearby Crestview Towers apartment were told to leave after engineers discovered serious concrete and electrical problems last week. On Saturday, they have 15 minutes to retrieve personal belongings.
Burkett said a test of Champlain Towers North, the sister building of a doomed apartment nearby, found that its concrete “reached or exceeded the level it should be.”
