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FOUR MORE VICTIMS have been found in the rubble of a collapsed apartment building in Florida, taking the death toll to 32, according to a fire official.
Miami-Dade Assistant Fire Chief Raide Jadallah gave the news to family members during a closed-door morning briefing today. He said rescuers have also been locating more human remains.
Jadallah said there was a two-hour delay early today as a result of lightning. He said workers have removed 5.5 million pounds of debris from the pile at Surfside.
Over 100 people are still missing after the 12-story Champlain Towers South crumbled over a week ago in Surfside, but a search official put the chances of finding survivors at “close to zero.”
Still, crews “were in full search and rescue mode”, hours after the remaining section of building was toppled in a haze of smoke and dust, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told a briefing.
She said the demolition had gone according to plan and that searchers had found three more victims in the rubble after work resumed.
Levine Cava added that authorities had raised “millions of dollars, thanks to the generosity of people in this country and all around the world,” with funds to be distributed to impacted families.
Authorities had halted work at the site because the unstable structure posed a threat to search-and-rescue teams, especially ahead of the expected arrival of Tropical Storm Elsa, probably today.
But as workers climbed back onto the huge debris pile, the head of an elite Israeli search-and-rescue team helping with the effort, Colonel Golan Vach, said on CNN he had told family members that the chances of now finding survivors were “close to zero.”
The imminent arrival of Tropical Storm Elsa – it hit west-central Cuba Monday on its way toward the Florida Keys – forced authorities to accelerate the demolition schedule.
The collapse in the early hours of 24 June had sparked a massive search-and-rescue effort, but no survivors have been found since that day.
Experts are looking at possible pre-existing critical flaws in the building’s structure, and are surveying other older high-rises in the area for potential problems.
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Its ok, Denzel Washington comes good in the end and owns up.
“In his verdict, the judge highlighted the co-pilot’s high level of intoxication, the number of people whose lives would have been endangered if he had flown the plane, the length of the flight, and the fact that he must have known that his colleagues had also been drinking”
Then he sentenced him to 6 months in jail?
It’s Norway, They gave Anders Breivik 20 years and a 5 stars room with internet connection and a Playstation
Six months is a disgrace
You’d wonder how common this is,only for the tip off no one would’ve ever known
Must of been an irish judge with such a ridiculous sentence
*have
Surely the two bottles were shared amongst all of them? Otherwise 2 bottles on his own would put him waaaaay over than 7 times the legal limit for airline staff.
I would have thought two bottles of whiskey would be a fatal dose.
Maybe they were miniatures.
He was *seven* times the limit – and it was *the next day*!! You think a couple of miniatures would do that?!
The legal limit for airline staff is lower than the statutory one (if I remember correctly) so a couple of mini bottles could have done that.
probably thought he was going to get the ride off those other two.
Well here he would have got a twelve month ban, but you can have you licence back in six. Sure isn’t it the same as having a few pints down the local and driving home!.
Only if you can fit 100 people in your car and your car can travel at 500mph through the air….
Where we’re going we don’t need roads.
Very good padraig, that made me laugh on a crappy tues afternoon
Is there a Norwegian version of SIPTU to appeal this ridiculously harsh decision?
Sure planes these days practically fly themselves. Whats the problem ?
Reminds me of a joke …
3 Padraigs, one English, one Scot and one Irish, all were at AA. Padraig from England says, “I’m Padraig and I’m an alcoholic. I drink 4 shorts with breakfast, another 4 for elevenses, go for a few beers at lunch, I have a hip flask that I use during the afternoon. I go to the pub for a few scoops and chasers on the way home and have a few more beers with me dinner. Then the wife and myself drink a few bottles of wine in front of the telly and then I’ll have half a bottle of whiskey for a nightcap before bed and repeat Monday to Friday. At the weekends I really go on the tear and would drink twice that”.
Padraig from Scotland stands up and says, “I’m Padraig and I’m an alcoholic. I drink 6 shorts with breakfast, another 8 for elevenses, go for 6 beers at lunch, I have two hip flasks that I use during the afternoon. I go to the pub for a few scoops and chasers on the way home and have another 6 beers with me dinner. Then the girlfriend myself drink probably 4 bottles of wine between us in the evening and then I’ll have a naggin of vodka for a nightcap before bed and repeat Monday to Friday. At the weekends I really go on the tear and would drink three times that”.
Padraig from Ireland stands up and says, “sure these two boys can’t drink at all..”
There is a legal limit for pilots?
There is. It’s very low (lower than the limit for drivers) but it exists.
The Pilot probably just bottled it!
So you’re saying there are drunk Latvian stewardesses on airBaltic flights? Giggity!
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