City awaiting report from condo board showing Crestview Towers is safe
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – It’s been four days since residents packed their bags and evacuated Crestview Towers in North Miami Beach.
There’s still no timeline on when they can go back home.
City Manager Arthur H. Sorey III says the condo board needs to submit a report that determines the building is safe for occupancy, which will then have to be... [...]
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Officials displaced hundreds of apartment building residents over safety concerns Friday and Saturday in Miami-Dade County.
Tanbeer Mahmood was displaced from an apartment in a Miami Beach property that records show was built in 1925. He said the city official’s decision to evacuate didn’t surprise him.
“We’ve been just going through this struggle for a while,” Mahmood said about the building’s... [...]
‘I could see children waving,’ officer says
SURFSIDE, Fla. – Hundreds of rescue crews have been carefully combing through the rubble in Surfside every day for more than a week.
And now we’re hearing from the very first crews who responded to the scene just moments after the partial collapse of Champlain Towers South.
The initial call came in as a fire alarm. It took Surfside police officers one minute to... [...]
Engineers monitor damaged structure as rescue crews continue their search for victims in Surfside
SURFSIDE, Fla. – A first responder who did not want to be identified confirmed to Local 10 News Friday that another rescuer found the body of his own daughter Thursday night as he was searching through the debris of the Champlain Towers South collapse.
The first responder said rescuers brought her down and the girl’s father draped... [...]
SURFSIDE, Fla. – Mail delivery has been disrupted to numerous residents and businesses in Surfside following last week’s partial collapse of Champlain Towers South, but law enforcement has begun to allow letter carriers to deliver mail and packages to those affected on streets currently closed to the public.
According to a news release, delivery continues to be temporarily suspended to these specific locations:
♦ Eighty Seven... [...]
