![]() Multiple full sweeps of the building, which included searches in hiding places such as closets and under beds, were conducted “at great risk to first responders,” the mayor said. Levine Cava emphasized that search and rescue crews “took every action we possibly could” to search for pets that remained in the building prior to the demolition. Per ABC News, Miami-Dade County mayor Daniella Levine Cava emphasized in a press conference on Monday morning that there were repeated efforts to find and rescue any pets who had been left behind in the building before it was demolished: Miami-Dade mayor insists every effort was made to rescue pets “Only dust landed on the existing pile” from Sunday night’s demolition, Miami-Dade County mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Monday, explaining that the controlled implosion of the building went “exactly as planned.” ![]() One of the reasons the demolition was deemed necessary was to make it possible to expand the search to areas closer to the now demolished part building which was still standing, including an area where master bedrooms from the collapsed condo units were likely located. “We’re now at 100 percent full strength, full-on pulling everybody out of that rubble pile,” Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told CNN on Tuesday. Rescue efforts ramped up at the site as Tropical Storm Elsa continued its crawl toward Florida. The bodies of eight more people were pulled from the rubble on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports. This puts the current death toll at 46 and 32 of those individuals have been identified. Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah told family members Wednesday that 10 victims and “additional human remains” were recovered from the collapse scene, according to reporting from the Associated Press. “Our sole responsibility at this point is to bring closure,” Jadallah said. On July 7, the Associated Press reports that Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah told families in private the emergency crews would remove rescue dogs and sound devices from the rubble site and that after two weeks of rescue searches, emergency officials would officially switch to recovery. The rescue stage ends as officials continue recovery effort “I can’t imagine why anyone would choose to live in a place where more than 100 people will likely have died.” “My clients are in favor of the site being a memorial,” attorney Robert McKee, who is representing several survivors and family members, told the Associated Press. According to Miami-Dade Fire Chief Alan Cominsky, the recovery phase will last two to three weeks, but that estimate is on a “sliding scale.”Īs for the land itself, survivors and the families of the victims will decide what should be done with the land. What’s going on?” Aghayere said.With the rescue officially called off, a debate now begins over how to approach the rubble at Champlain Towers South. “It doesn’t look like normal concrete to me. He said it is impossible to tell from just the images whether the concrete used in original construction was weaker than the designs called for, or whether the apparent weakness was due to damage over time. ![]() He added that instead of seeing aggregate material mixed into the concrete, “it’s just homogenous,” which is likely indication of saltwater damage. “The white color just stuns me,” Aghayere told the newspaper. Stone-like aggregates used to strengthen concrete during construction typically remain visible but they were not in the images from the collapse site. ![]() He said he was struck by how “powdery” and white the concrete in columns appeared in the newly released video. While it’s already congested with rebar, at the splice regions, it would have been “even further congested,” Aghayere told the Herald. The risk posed by “congested” vertical rebar in columns would have been even worse in spots where the rebar overlapped, which is known as “lap splice” regions, Abieyuwa Aghayere, a Drexel University engineering researcher who also reviewed the video, told the newspaper. “There is no reason there should be that kind of bar congestion,” Lehman said. The images show beams, walls and columns that appear to be overcrowded with steel reinforcement, which suggests potential weaknesses, she explained. “If there’s that amount of corrosion, this should have been fixed,” she said. She said that amount of corrosion should have been obvious and documented as part of the 40-year inspection that was ongoing when the building in Surfside, Florida, collapsed June 24. “The corrosion on the bottom of that column is astronomical,” Dawn Lehman, a professor of structural engineering at the University of Washington, told the Miami Herald.
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