Jimmy Patronis, Florida’s chief financial officer and state fire marshal, said it was the largest deployment of such resources in Florida history that was not due to a hurricane.

– Despite warning, town deemed condo building in 'good shape'.

– Remembering the dead and missing in Florida condo collapse.

– Before building collapse, $9M+ in repairs needed.

Workers and victims must both be considered, he said. Underscoring the risks of the work, he noted that families who rode buses to visit the site on Sunday witnessed a rescuer tumble 25 feet down the pile.

“It’s not an issue of we could just attach a couple of cords to a concrete boulder and lift it and call it a day.” Some of the concrete pieces are smaller, the size of basketballs or baseballs. “Every time there’s an action, there’s a reaction,” Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah said during a news conference. The pancake collapse of the building left layer upon layer of intertwined debris, frustrating efforts to reach anyone who may have survived in a pocket of space.

More than 150 others are still missing in the community of Surfside, just outside Miami. They were later identified as 50-year-old Frank Kleiman and 50-year-old Michael David Altman in a Miami-Dade Police news release that also named 52-year-old Marcus Joseph Guara as one of the bodies recovered on Saturday. Two more bodies were recovered Monday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 11. (AP) - Rescuers searching for a fifth day for survivors of a Florida condo building collapse used bucket brigades and heavy machinery Monday as they worked atop a precarious mound of pulverized concrete, twisted steel and the remnants of dozens of households.Īuthorities said their efforts were still a search-and-rescue operation, but no one has been found alive since hours after the collapse on Thursday.

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