12 story condo collapses in Miami. Many feared dead

[Gefn]

Miami-area condo collapse causes massive emergency response

SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — The sea-view side of a beachfront condo tower collapsed in the Miami-area town of Surfside early Thursday, drawing a massing response from emergency services.

Miami Dade Fire Rescue was conducting search and rescue operations, and said in a tweet that more than 80 units were “on scene with assistance from municipal fire departments.”

Authorities had no word yet on casualties or details of how many people lived in the building.

“We’re on the scene so it’s still very active,” said Sgt. Marian Cruz of the Surfside Police Department. “What I can tell you is the building is twelve floors. The entire back side of the building has collapsed.”

https://apnews.com/article/miami-building-collapses-25ee9ff94dd07d2a0ae3da742a6cb8dd

[Gefn]

Twelve-story Miami Beach apartment building collapses sparking huge search and rescue operation amid fears many people are dead or trapped in rubble

A massive rescue operation is underway after an apartment building close to Miami Beach collapsed in the early hours of this morning.

The ocean-front building, a twelve-story apartment complex called Champlain Towers South, has partially collapsed, fire rescue services have confirmed.

Neighbours say the building of around 100 apartments that sell for up to $915,000 was mostly occupied after being completed in 1981 near 88th street and Collins Avenue in Surfside, Florida. Jared and Ivanka Trump's rented Miami Beach apartment is one block away.

One woman has died and at least nine people are injured, including a firefighter, following the collapse just before 1.30am, according to local media reports.

There are fears that many more people may be dead or remain trapped beneath the rubble and witnesses have reported hearing screaming from beneath the rubble as a search-and-rescue operation begins.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9720381/Eleven-story-Miami-Beach-apartment-building-collapses-sparking-huge-search.html

[rustynail]

The Trumps are involved?  This could be bad for them.

[Smokin Joe]

The Trumps are involved?  This could be bad for them.

No more than anyone else who owns a building a block away.

(If they were directly involved with that building, that would have been the first thing in the headline.)
It's just more a mention to try to establish guilt by association because they have a building in the same area.

Associating someone with something negative or positive, even in the most obtuse way, is commonly used by crappy propagandists to reflect badly (or well) on someone unrelated to the events of the story.

[Polly Ticks]

Horrifying.
I wonder if they've ruled out terrorism.

[240B]

Jared and Ivanka Trump's rented Miami Beach apartment is one block away.

Good Grief! How many politicians and celebrities have an apartment within a block or a mile of this place.
The Clintons rent a place less than a mile away! Cher has a condo within the same State!

They just threw "Trump" in the headline as clickbait. But it is good.
Even the Libs are eventually wising up to the propaganda media tricks.
And this is so obvious and absurd, it is likely to piss them off.
I clicked on this crap because they said Trump was involved! What is this crap?

[Wingnut]

WTF  Are we some 3rd world shithole now where buildings and walkways and bridges collapse?

[mountaineer]

John Cardillo
@johncardillo
Way too early to tell the actual cause of the building collapse in Miami Beach, but first responders on scene feel it was a sinkhole because of the lack of enough surface debris. The building fell into something.
The side of the building away from the beach is still intact.
8:14 AM · Jun 24, 2021

John Cardillo
@johncardillo
Just spoke to one of the first responders at the building collapse on Miami Beach/Surfside and initial working theory is a sinkhole.
Having lived down here 17 years I’ve heard more than a few architects and engineers express concern about this exact thing.
8:00 AM · Jun 24, 2021

[mystery-ak]

OMG the pictures are terrible..

https://twitter.com/tonypascarella/status/1407990615904866305

[mystery-ak]

[mystery-ak]

[mystery-ak]

[mystery-ak]

Blaming DeSantis

Phil P
@Uperpeninsula
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Desantis building inspection

[cato potatoe]

John Cardillo
@johncardillo
Way too early to tell the actual cause of the building collapse in Miami Beach, but first responders on scene feel it was a sinkhole because of the lack of enough surface debris. The building fell into something.
The side of the building away from the beach is still intact.
8:14 AM · Jun 24, 2021

Seems unlikely.  Do sinkholes occur on barrier islands? 

[Wingnut]

Blaming DeSantis

Phil P
@Uperpeninsula
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5m
Replying to
@ABC
Desantis building inspection

Waiting for Val Demings to blame DeSantis for this too. 

[mountaineer]

Seems unlikely.  Do sinkholes occur on barrier islands?

I don't know, but suspect the ground is not particularly stable there. 

[thackney]

Seems unlikely.  Do sinkholes occur on barrier islands?

Over the last several years, residents in Miami had seen sinkholes of different sizes. Here are some of the sinkhole incidents in the area:

August 2013 – A sinkhole formed after a main water line between 84 and 85 streets in Miami Beach broke. It also caused a water outage for 500 customers.

October 2015 – A sinkhole formed on a busy roadway at Southwest 27th Avenue, located between the Sixth and Seventh Streets. It looked small at first but upon inspection, it extended through three lanes.

October 2015 – A sinkhole opened due to a broken service line from the Four Points by Sheraton Miami Beach Hotel located at 4343 Collins Avenue. Northbound traffic on Collins Avenue was diverted at 41st Street, while the 44th Street was closed.

August 2016 – Because of a broken water line, two massive holes opened in the southbound lanes of Florida’s Turnpike, near Hard Rock Stadium, prompting the officials to close lanes and two exits.

October 2016 – A sinkhole opened on 41st Street and Royal Palm Avenue, near the Julia Tuttle Causeway. The cause might be the severe weather at Miami-Dade.

November 2017 – A sinkhole opened at the intersection of Flagler and 107th Avenue.

https://sinkholemaps.com/resources/miami-sinkholes-what-you-should-know-before-moving-to-miami-fl/

[mountaineer]

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1408055796534059010

[skeeter]

WTF  Are we some 3rd world shithole now where buildings and walkways and bridges collapse?

Yeah. I thought this only happened in Asia.

[DCPatriot]

WTF  Are we some 3rd world shithole now where buildings and walkways and bridges collapse?

The Pedestrian bridge on Kenilworth Ave in Washington, D.C. fell yesterday as a result of a truck carrying scrap metal whose driver failed to lower the boom on the crane.  It was recently inspected and only minor cosmetic repairs were necessary.

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1408055796534059010

OMG looks like the Twin Towers collapsing..

[mountaineer]

OMG looks like the Twin Towers collapsing..

One of the tweeters said it looked like a controlled implosion. Strange.

[Wingnut]

One of the tweeters said it looked like a controlled implosion. Strange.

More like the Alfred P. Murrah Bldg to my mind.....

[mystery-ak]

More like the Alfred P. Murrah Bldg to my mind.....

That was my first thought as well..

[Polly Ticks]

One of the tweeters said it looked like a controlled implosion. Strange.

I can see that.  It seems to collapse almost straight down.

Here's the implosion of the Belknap Building in Louisville several years ago for comparison:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yrpQrYdvTY