SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Mayor: 2 more bodies have been pulled from the collapsed condominium building in the Miami area, bringing the toll to 22.

Detectives manage to locate several people thought missing, in some cases audit finds same people listed twice by English and Hebrew names; confirmed death toll stands at 20

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials are working on plans to tear down what’s left of a partially collapsed oceanfront condominium building after concerns about the structure’s instability prompted a 15-hour halt to the search for survivors. After rescue efforts resumed Thursday evening, officials said they had started planning for the likely demolition of the […]

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — The body of a Miami firefighter’s 7-year-old daughter was recovered from the site of a South Florida condo collapse by the search and rescue team he had been assisting, officials said Friday. The child was one of two victims found in the rubble of Champlain Towers South late Thursday, one week […]

Engineers looking at different methods for demolition and how to proceed to make site 'safe for ongoing rescue operations,' official says

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Susana Alvarez fled her home on the 10th floor of Champlain Towers South, escaping with her life and almost nothing else. “I don’t have anything,” said the 62-year-old survivor of the condominium building collapse just outside Miami. “I walked out with my pajamas and my phone.” The disaster that killed at […]

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — The bodies of two more people have been found at the site of a partially collapsed oceanfront condominium building in the Miami area, raising the death toll to 20 people with 128 still missing. Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said Friday that the bodies were found Thursday evening, after concerns […]

Among those confirmed killed or missing are several members of the area's vibrant Jewish community, including newlyweds, grandparents and multi-generational families

SURFSIDE (VINnews) — This Shabbos, hundreds of thousands of Jews will learn in Daf Yomi the Mishnah in Yuma (83a) about the laws of clearing the rubble of a collapsed building to search for possible survivors. 88 years ago, at a “farbrengen” in Riga, Latvia, the young Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson zt”l, later to become […]

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — Rescue efforts at the site of a partially collapsed Florida condominium building resumed Thursday evening, about 15 hours after the work was halted out of concern about the stability of the remaining structure, the mayor said. Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett said he did not know why officials decided to restart the […]