Date uploaded: 2021-06-24 12:50:52
UPDATE: 37 people rescued from collapsed condo building near Miami, but dozens are unaccounted for and at least one person is dead.
Firefighters were extricating dozens of people from the battered high-rise condominium building near Miami on Thursday after part of the structure collapsed.
Authorities say they don't know how many people were in the building when it collapsed, nor how many of them were able to flee the disaster.
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A massive search and rescue effort was underway Thursday outside Miami after a 12-story, oceanside condo building partially collapsed into a mammoth pile of rubble leaving at least one person dead, authorities said.
Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said at least one person was dead and at least another 10 were injured. Search efforts in the collapsed section of the building were continuing but the way the building fell means those efforts may not be successful in recovering many people, Burkett added.
Authorities say they don't know how many people were in the building when it collapsed, nor how many of them were able to flee the disaster. The building is part of Champlain Towers South, built in 1981 and containing more than 100 apartments, according to the Miami Herald.
Authorities were still trying to determine the cause of the collapse. Updates to come.
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