一名县官员告诉美国广播公司新闻，周四早些时候，佛罗里达州迈阿密戴德县的一栋12层住宅楼部分倒塌，造成至少3人死亡，多达99人下落不明。

据报道，位于迈阿密海滩以北约6英里的海滨小镇Surfside的尚普兰塔南公寓于凌晨1点30分倒塌。黎明前展开了大规模的搜索和救援行动，工作人员仍在仔细搜寻残骸和剩余结构，希望找到幸存者。

据迈阿密戴德消防救援队助理队长雷德·贾达拉称，到目前为止，救援人员已经从废墟下救出了35名被困在大楼里的人和另外两人。官员称已有102人被找到。

作为搜索工作的一部分，消防队员小组一直在瓦砾中搜寻，并放置声纳设备。据贾达拉称，救援人员没有听到任何声音从废墟中发出，尽管他们发现了“敲打的可能性”。

“这个过程缓慢而有条理，”贾达拉在下午晚些时候的新闻发布会上告诉记者。“每当废墟发生变化，我们就会有更多的废墟向我们移动。”

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迈阿密戴德消防救援人员继续在部分坍塌中进行搜救行动

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救援人员在废墟中行走，一栋12层海滨公寓大楼的一个翼

目前还不清楚到底有多少居民失踪。

根据佛罗里达州参议员马尔科·卢比奥的说法，这栋建筑中“相当多”的居民是外国人。

巴拉圭外交部表示，六名巴拉圭国民在大楼里，仍然下落不明:该国第一夫人的妹妹索菲娅·洛佩斯-莫雷拉;她的丈夫路易斯·佩滕吉尔;他们的三个孩子;和他们的保姆露娜·维拉巴女士。马里奥·阿卜杜·贝尼特斯总统因该事件取消了他的活动。

阿根廷迈阿密领事馆称，9名阿根廷国民失踪;委内瑞拉驻美国大使证实四名委内瑞拉国民失踪;乌拉圭外交部说，三名乌拉圭国民受到影响，尽管他们的身份尚不清楚。哥伦比亚外交部还报告称，六名哥伦比亚国民居住在该建筑中，官员们仍在试图确定倒塌时他们是否在那里。

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12层的尚普兰塔南公寓大楼部分倒塌后，瓦砾堆积如山

索利亚·科恩的丈夫布拉德·科恩是一名51岁的整形外科医生，她的姐夫加里·科恩是一名从阿拉巴马州来的医生，两人都失踪了。索利亚·科恩说他们一直没有接电话，她很震惊。

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索莉娅·科恩展示了她丈夫布拉德·科恩的照片，她说他在派对后失踪了

加布·尼尔和他的母亲和妹妹住在尚普兰南塔，他告诉美国广播公司新闻，当他们听到倒塌时，他们从大楼里跑了出来。

尼尔说，他感觉到了第二次更强烈的崩溃，并说他们逃命，因为一团厚厚的白色灰尘笼罩着他们，使他们难以呼吸。尼尔把这次坍塌比作地震，他说他很庆幸自己还活着。

大卫·圣地亚哥/迈阿密先驱报

一架迈阿密戴德警察直升机在多层公寓后飞过尚普兰塔南公寓.

一名目击者告诉美国广播公司新闻，他的妻子照顾住在公寓里的一名老年妇女，并在当地时间凌晨1点15分左右，在隔壁的公寓倒塌后，疯狂地给他打电话。他说他的妻子和老妇人都获救了。

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人们看着倒塌的12层海滨尚普兰塔南公寓的损坏

迈阿密戴德县的一名官员表示，很难确定该地区有多少人，部分原因是没有一家现场管理公司进行跟踪。该公寓由全职居民、季节性居民、租房者和短期游客组成，因此当局一直主要依赖邻居和口碑。

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尚普兰南塔的家庭成员和居民在镇外互相问候

根据贾达拉的说法，海滨公寓有136个单元，其中大约55个单元沿着东北走廊倒塌。

冲浪市长查尔斯·伯克特称这次坍塌为“灾难”

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12层公寓大楼的一部分在

现场录像显示消防员把一个男孩从废墟中活着拉出来和从静止的阳台上营救其他人。

贾达拉告诉记者，包括获救人员在内，至少有45人在现场接受了医学评估和治疗。阿文图拉医院和医疗中心表示，已经接收了三名患者，其中两人伤势严重，一人状况尚可，杰克逊健康系统称有两名患者。

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佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯(Ron DeSantis)巡视了该网站，告诉记者“看到它令人痛苦”。

“这是悲惨的一天，”德桑蒂斯在周四下午的新闻发布会上说。"我们仍然有希望能够识别更多的幸存者。"

根据命令，州长于周四晚上宣布该县进入紧急状态，“为受冲浪场悲剧影响的家庭提供援助”。

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2021年6月24日，佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩附近的冲浪区，一栋部分倒塌的建筑。

冲浪区市长伯克特告诉记者，这座共管公寓建于上世纪80年代，据信在部分倒塌时基本上已满。他说，这栋建筑正在进行屋顶工程。

冲浪专员内利·维拉斯克兹告诉美国广播公司新闻，这座建筑将进行40年的重新认证。

尚普兰塔南公寓协会的律师肯尼斯·德克托(Kenneth Direktor)告诉美国广播公司新闻，该协会正准备启动一个新的建设项目进行更新，该建筑已经通过了广泛的检查。他说，他没有被警告该建筑的任何结构问题或建筑用地。他说，建筑物受到了水的破坏，但这在海滨地区很常见，不会导致倒塌。

“从来没有见过这样的事情，至少在我从事这项工作的40年里没有，”德克托说。

据伯克特说，大约有15个家庭自己逃出了大楼，被安置在当地的一家旅馆里。市长说，当天还黑的时候，搜索犬在残骸周围做了初步的搜索，这个地方被认为是危险的，但是当时没有幸存者的迹象。

 

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鲁兹·玛丽娜手里拿着一张她姑姑玛丽娜·阿赞的照片，她说她姑姑在那次事故后失踪了

迈阿密戴德县的一名官员说，该县有一支城市搜索和救援队，已被派往世界各地的地震和其他灾难中，但这是该队第一次被部署在自己的地盘上。

迈阿密戴德县市长丹妮尔·莱文·卡瓦感谢“勇敢”的救援人员。

“我们需要让他们做他们的工作，因为在这个搜索中的每一分钟都可以产生巨大的影响，”她在新闻发布会上说。

一位县官员说，人们真的很担心剩余建筑的结构完整性，尤其是悬挂的电线和部分混凝土。这位官员说，大火已经燃烧了一整天，增加了搜救队的危险。

该官员说，该建筑群未受影响的部分已于上午8点清理完毕。由于挥之不去的危险，几个街区将在下周关闭。

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坍塌原因不明，迈阿密戴德警察局正在领导调查。

“我们的目标是为我们的家人提供彻底的调查和结案，”迈阿密戴德警察局局长弗雷迪·拉米雷斯周四上午告诉记者。

乔·拜登总统说，他与迈阿密戴德市长以及代表该地区的众议员黛比·乏色曼·舒尔茨进行了交谈。拜登说，他正在等待州长要求紧急声明，但他“准备好立即动用联邦资源，如果事实上我们要求这样做的话。”

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2021年6月24日，佛罗里达州Surfside，人们在部分建筑倒塌后等待信息。

当局在冲浪娱乐中心为那些无法找到住在尚普兰塔南的亲人的人开设了一个家庭援助中心。任何有公寓家庭成员安全或仍然失踪的人都被敦促拨打305-614-1819来说明他们的情况。

Florida building collapse latest: 3 dead, as many as 99 missing

At least three people are dead and as many as99 are unaccounted for after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in Miami-Dade County, Florida, early Thursday, a county official told ABC News.

The collapse of the Champlain Towers South condominium in the small, beachside town of Surfside, about 6 miles north of Miami Beach, was reported around 1:30 a.m. A massive search and rescue operation was launched before dawn and crews are still carefully combing through the wreckage and remaining structure in hopes of finding survivors.

So far, crews have rescued 35 people who were trapped in the building and two others from beneath the rubble, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Assistant Chief Raide Jadallah. Officials said 102 people have been accounted for.

Teams of firefighters have been cutting through the rubble and placing sonar devices as part of the search efforts. Responders have not heard any voices coming from the pile, though have picked up "a possibility of a banging," according to Jadallah.

"This process is slow and methodical," Jadallah told reporters during a late afternoon press briefing. "Every time there's a shift in the rubble, we have additional rubble that shifts on us."

It's unclear exactly how many residents are missing.

A "substantial number" of the building's residents are foreigners, according to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.

The Foreign Ministry of Paraguay said six Paraguayan nationals were in the building and still missing: Sophia López-Moreira, the sister of the country's first lady; her husband, Luis Pettengill; their three children; and their nanny, Lady Luna Villalba. President Mario Abdo Benítez canceled his events due to the incident.

Argentina's Miami consulate said nine Argentine nationals are missing; Venezuela's ambassador to the U.S. confirmed four Venezuelan nationals are missing; and Uruguay's Foreign Ministry said three Uruguayan nationals have been affected, though their status is unclear. Colombia's Foreign Ministry also reported that six Colombian nationals resided in the building and officials are still trying to determine whether they were there at the time of the collapse.

Soriya Cohen's husband, Brad Cohen, a 51-year-old orthopedic surgeon, and her brother-in-law, Gary Cohen, a doctor visiting from Alabama, both are missing. Soriya Cohen said they haven't been answering their phones and she's in shock.

Gabe Nir, who lives inChamplain Tower South with his mother and sister, told ABC News that they ran from the building when they heard the collapse.

Nir said he felt a second, more intense collapse, and said they ran for their lives as a thick cloud of white dust enveloped them, making it hard to breathe. Nir, who compared the collapse to an earthquake, said he's grateful to be alive.

One witness told ABC News that his wife cares for an elderly woman who lives in the condominium and frantically called him around 1:15 a.m. local time, after the units next door came crashing down. He said his wife and the elderly woman both were rescued.

A Miami-Dade county official said it's been difficult determining how many people were in that section of the complex partly because there isn't an on-scene management company that keeps track. The condominium is a mix of full-time residents, seasonal residents, renters and short-term visitors, so authorities have been relying largely on neighbors and word of mouth.

The oceanfront condominium has 136 units, and approximately 55 of them collapsed along the northeast corridor, according to Jadallah.

Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett called the collapse a "catastrophe."

Footage from the scene showed firefighterspulling a boy from the rubble aliveandrescuing others from still-standing balconies.

Jadallah told reporters that at least 45 people, including those who were rescued, were medically assessed and treated on site. Aventura Hospital and Medical Center said it's received three patients -- two with critical injuries, one in fair condition -- and Jackson Health System said it has two patients.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis toured the site, telling reporters it was "traumatic to see."

"It's a tragic day," DeSantis said at a Thursday afternoon news conference. "We still have hope to be able to identify additional survivors."

The governor declared a state of emergency in the county Thursday evening "to provide assistance for the families impacted by the Surfside tragedy," according to the order.

Burkett, the Surfside mayor, told reporters that the condominium was built in the 1980s and was believed to be substantially full at the time of the partial collapse. The building was undergoing roof work, he said.

Surfside Commissioner Nelly Velasquez told ABC News the building was up for its 40-year recertification.

The Champlain Towers South Condo Association was preparing to start a new construction project to make updates and the building had been through extensive inspections, Kenneth Direktor, a lawyer for the association, told ABC News. He said he hadn't been warned of any structural issues with the building or about the land it was built on. He said there was water damage to the building, but that is common for oceanfront properties and wouldn't have caused the collapse.

"Nothing like this has ever been seen, at least not in the 40 years I've been doing this," Direktor said.

Some 15 families escaped the building on their own and were put up in a local hotel, according to Burkett. Search dogs did an initial pass around the wreckage when it was still dark and the site was considered dangerous, but there were no signs of survivors at that time, the mayor said.

Miami-Dade has an urban search and rescue team that has been dispatched to earthquakes and other disasters all around the world, but this is the first time the team has been deployed on home turf, a county official said.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava thanked the "brave" rescuers.

"We need to allow them to do their work because every minute in this search can make a huge difference," she said at a news conference.

There's real concern about the structural integrity of the remaining building, particularly from dangling wires and portions of concrete, a county official said. Fires have flared up throughout the day, adding to the danger for the search and rescue teams, the official said.

The unaffected section of the complex was cleared as of 8 a.m., the official said.Because of the lingering dangers, several blocks will be closed for the next week.

The cause of the collapse is unknown, and the Miami-Dade Police Department is leading an investigation.

"Our goal is to provide a thorough investigation and closure for our families," Freddy Ramirez, director of the Miami-Dade Police Department, told reporters Thursday morning.

President Joe Biden said he spoke with the mayor of Miami-Dade, as well as Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who represents the district. Biden said he was waiting on the governor to ask for an emergency declaration, but he is "ready to move from the federal resources immediately, immediately, if in fact we're asked for it."

Authorities have opened a family assistance center at the Surfside recreational center for individuals unable to locate loved ones who live in the Champlain Towers South. Anyone with family members from the condominium who are either safe or still missing is urged to call 305-614-1819 to account for them.