- The collapsed body of the Florida apartment shows no sign that the victim survived the initial collapse.
- Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue Captain Alan Kominsky revealed this at a press conference on Wednesday.
- The death toll confirmed in the June 24 tragedy in Surfside, Florida, jumped to 46 on Wednesday.
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There is no sign of the nearly four salvaged bodies Florida apartment collapsed The local fire chief said on Wednesday that any of them had survived the initial disaster.
Alan Kominski, head of the Miami-Dade Fire and Rescue, said search and rescue personnel did not see any signs that the victims rescued from the rubble showed that they had survived the initial collapse of Champlain Tann.
The death toll confirmed in the tragedy in Surfside, Florida on June 24, Jump to 46 Officials said that after 10 more bodies were found in the debris pile at the scene on Wednesday.
Within hours of the partial collapse of the 12-story waterfront building, the workers rescued the first victim from the rubble, so no survivors were found in the wreckage.
However, officials still refer to large-scale operations on the debris pile as “search and rescue” missions.
When the reporter asked whether he thought calling it a “search and rescue” operation would give false hope to the families of the missing relatives, Kominsky said: “We are continuing our search… Evaluate all inputs, all situations, and we will provide updates as we continue.”
“Obviously it is very difficult, you know, since we first came here, all our employees have been working around the clock,” Kominsky said. “We have been doing our best, and this is where we are now, we are doing our best, and then we will start from there.”
The Mayor of Miami-Dade County, Daniella Levine Cava, praised the first responders who worked at the disaster site, saying that they “have been really searching for that pile of things every day since the collapse. It’s like looking for one’s own relatives.
