Remainder of Florida condo building demolished

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Demolition crews have set off explosives to bring down the damaged remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo.


The demolition Sunday night was key to resuming the search for victims of the June 24 collapse and even expected to open new areas for rescue teams to work in. No one has been found alive since the first hours after the disaster. So far, rescuers have recovered the remains of 24 people, with 121 still missing.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/surside-condo-demolition/
 

Shame on, Charles Burkett, Mayor of Surfside FL, for his words. :mad:

He needs to be shut down, there's nothing rescue about it. It's a cleanup and recovery mission now, the end.

P.S. Robert. LOVE your avatar!!! 🤗
 

I imagine it's going to take a very long while for the families of the victims to accept this horror. So very sorry for them.
 
I know this is frivolous but I wonder if any were able to go into the side that was standing and get personal belongings out before they blew the building down. So many lost their lives. Now the living have also lost their home, which I'm sure was not a cheap place to live. I hope insurance helps them get another place.
 
? Demolishing the damaged remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo will improve the searching for, plus hope for finding possible survivors? Say what? If I was a survivor still hanging in there, I'd be praying please don't bring down the remaining standing portion on me.
 
Elsie said:
? Demolishing the damaged remaining portion of a collapsed South Florida condo will improve the searching for, plus hope for finding possible survivors? Say what? If I was a survivor still hanging in there, I'd be praying please don't bring down the remaining standing portion on me.
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My husband and I have had extensive conversations about this ever since it happened, and my husband said, "look at the pile of rubble, it looks like it was poured out as a liquid and then turned solid after the collapse". No one survives that.

There are no survivors guaranteed, this incident happened almost 2 weeks ago now. It's over for those who got caught in it. It was over the day it happened. It's time loved ones moved forward and accepted the fact that their loved ones are gone.
 
Aunt Marg said:
My husband and I have had extensive conversations about this ever since it happened, and my husband said, "look at the pile of rubble, it looks like it was poured out as a liquid and then turned solid after the collapse". No one survives that.

There are no survivors guaranteed, this incident happened almost 2 weeks ago now. It's over for those who got caught in it. It was over the day it happened. It's time loved ones moved forward and accepted the fact that their loved ones are gone.
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I agree, no survivors. It's just that the thought of bringing down more rubble upon the "killing" ground, where so much horror happened, the thought of it just sickened me even though it had to be done.
 
win231 said:
Demolishing the building makes it much more difficult to determine why it collapsed - which was likely the motive.
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I think you're overthinking it all.

It was already established that the foundation of the building was settling at a concerning rate, even contractors were black-balling and washing their hands clean of working on the structure, and with the heavy spalling present in main concrete supports and beams, it was just a matter of time before gravity did it's thing.

From what I understand all debris is being transported to a location to be analyzed, and my guess is the report at the end of the day will conclude that the building suffered the catastrophic failure that it did due to settling and the loss of structural integrity.

No bombs, no explosives, no shoddy workmanship or engineering, just catastrophic failure account environmental conditions and structural factors brought on by the presence of environmental progression.
 
Elsie said:
I agree, no survivors. It's just that the thought of bringing down more rubble upon the "killing" ground, where so much horror happened, the thought of it just sickened me even though it had to be done.
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It is stomach wrenching to think about, but as Buckeye, mentioned, no bodies recovered thus far have been intact, reminding us of the sheer weight and pressures involved.

I like to think it was over before 99% of those who were lost were even able to process what had happened/was happening.

Just knowing as of last week, over 3 million tons of debris had already been removed, helps give one an idea of the colossal weight and volume that still lays untouched, and then to figure in how fragile a human body is, it speaks for itself as to the outcome.
 
Time for the heavy equipment to move in. You just can't move that amount of rubble by hand a little at a time. They will come up with some way to find human remains through the process, probably with dogs.
 
The only (potential) silver lining I see in this is that the state may get tough with building inspections and prevent future, similar disasters. Other than that, this was a tragedy with immense hurt for all involved.
 
Aunt Marg said:
It is stomach wrenching to think about, but as Buckeye, mentioned, no bodies recovered thus far have been intact, reminding us of the sheer weight and pressures involved.

I like to think it was over before 99% of those who were lost were even able to process what had happened/was happening.

Just knowing as of last week, over 3 million tons of debris had already been removed, helps give one an idea of the colossal weight and volume that still lays untouched, and then to figure in how fragile a human body is, it speaks for itself as to the outcome.
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In the unlikely event anyone else had survived the collapse, wouldn't they have died by now from thirst, heat, crush injuries, etc.?
 
64 victims have been recovered now, with only 40 identified.

Over 8 million tons of debris has now been removed from the site.

76 people are still unaccounted for at this time.
 

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