至少11个人都死了周一晚上，南方一栋12层的住宅楼部分倒塌，另有150人下落不明佛罗里达的官员称，上周迈阿密戴德县。

一场大规模的搜救行动进入第五天，搜救人员继续仔细梳理希望找到的那堆残骸幸存者。部分崩溃发生当地时间上周四凌晨1点15分左右，在迈阿密海滩以北约6英里的海滨小镇Surfside的尚普兰塔南公寓。根据迈阿密戴德消防救援助理局长雷德·贾达拉的说法，海滨综合建筑的136个单元中约有55个被摧毁。

“我们正在挖掘...篮球大小的混凝土块，棒球大小的混凝土块，”贾达拉周一在冲浪场的新闻发布会上说。“这需要时间;这不会在一夜之间发生。”

周一早上在残骸中发现了一具尸体，下午又发现了一具，死亡人数达到11人。与此同时，迈阿密戴德县市长丹妮尔·莱文·卡瓦(Daniella Levine Cava)表示，灾难发生时住在公寓里的136人已经得到了解释。她指出，这些数字“非常不稳定”，“并将继续变化”。

莱文·卡瓦在周一的新闻发布会上说:“将对导致这一悲惨事件的原因进行彻底和全面的调查。”。“我们要弄清这里发生的事情。现在，我们的首要任务是搜救。”

疯狂的搜索

贾达拉说，救援人员上周清理了剩余的建筑，此后所有资源都转移到了废墟上。数百名急救人员和志愿者夜以继日地工作，寻找废墟中的幸存者或人类遗骸。据莱文·卡瓦(Levine Cava)称，工作人员已经在这堆东西上挖了一条125英尺长、20英尺宽、40英尺深的壕沟，以帮助加强搜索。

据贾达拉说，截至周一下午，工作人员还没有到达废墟的底部，但放置在里面的摄像头显示出空隙和气穴，人们可能被困在那里。贾达拉说，他们还没有准备好从救援向恢复过渡。

80多名救援人员正在一次一堆地工作，倾听声音并试图通过隧道。迈阿密戴德消防救援负责人安迪·阿尔瓦雷斯是负责搜救工作的事故副指挥官，他形容这一过程既疯狂又艰难。

阿尔瓦雷斯周一在接受美国广播公司新闻采访时说:“这是一场疯狂的搜索，目的是继续看到希望和奇迹，看看我们能把谁活着带出这座大楼。”

吉安里戈·马莱塔/法新社通过盖蒂图像

2021年6月25日，佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩北部冲浪区一栋部分倒塌建筑的残骸。

阿尔瓦雷斯说，由于高温、潮湿和下雨，救援人员的条件“很差”而且“不理想”。但是搜救工作仍在一天24小时持续进行。

“我们支持是因为我们都支持那种希望，那种相信我们能够拯救某人的信念，”他补充道。“我们正不知疲倦地工作，试图带走废墟下的受害者并营救他们。”

阿尔瓦雷斯说，工作人员正在使用各种设备和技术，包括可以检测受害者的地下声纳系统，以及可以从桩上移除巨大混凝土板的起重机卡车。

“现在我们有了那些巨大的起重机，我们正在做大型升降机，”他说。“这将有助于我们能够像洋葱一样层压这座建筑，这样我们就可以进入里面，再次找到我们知道可能存在的空隙，拯救那些人。”

阿尔瓦雷斯是2010年被派往海地帮助寻找毁灭性地震幸存者的救援人员之一，他敦促那些失去亲人的人保持希望。

“你必须要有希望和信念，”他说。"佛罗里达州的每一支特遣部队都在这里."

杰拉尔德·赫伯特/美联社

2021年6月25日，救援人员在南尚普兰大厦的废墟中搜寻..

一些第一反应者是迈阿密戴德消防救援队的城市搜索和救援小组佛罗里达特遣队-1的成员，该小组是联邦应急管理局国家城市搜索和救援反应系统的一部分，已被部署到全国和世界各地的灾难中。

“对我们来说，这是私人的，”佛罗里达州第一特遣部队的消防中尉奥贝德·弗洛梅塔周日告诉美国广播公司新闻。“团队成员认识被困在废墟中的人，他们是这次事件的受害者。很难让我们的团队摆脱这些困境，你知道，他们想继续前进。”

尽管官员们继续表示希望能找到更多活着的人，但自该建筑部分倒塌的那天早上以来，在废墟中没有发现幸存者。54岁的斯泰西·方和她15岁的儿子乔纳·汉德勒星期四早上被从残骸中救出，并被送往当地医院，方后来在医院去世。

迈阿密戴德消防救援负责人艾伦·科明斯基告诉记者，在整个现场都发现了找回的尸体，工作人员已经将这些尸体分类到网格中。

“它不在一个特定的孤立区域，”他说。

官员们要求失踪人员的家人提供他们所爱的人的DNA样本和独特特征，如纹身和伤疤，以帮助识别在残骸中发现的人。

周日下午，下落不明者的亲属在迈阿密海滩的大海滩酒店(Grand Beach Hotel)登上了几辆公共交通巴士，那里已经建立了一个家庭团聚中心。他们由当地警察护送到灾难现场附近的一个地区，这样他们就可以私下为他们失踪的亲人哀悼、祈祷和守夜。

哪里出了问题

一座经受了几十年飓风的建筑部分倒塌的原因仍然未知。迈阿密戴德警察局正在领导对此事件的调查。

根据莱文·卡瓦的说法，到目前为止，没有证据表明存在谋杀。

“当然，这并不排除，”迈阿密戴德县市长上周五告诉美国广播公司新闻。“不排除任何可能性。但是，在这一点上，没有任何迹象表明。”

据Surfside官员称，尚普兰南塔楼建于20世纪80年代，已进行了40年的重新认证，在部分倒塌时一直在进行屋顶工程，并计划进一步翻新。

乔治维耶拉/法新社通过盖蒂图像

南佛罗里达城市搜索和救援队的成员在中部寻找幸存者...

2018年10月的结构性实地调查报告，其中包括数百页的公共文件放周日晚些时候，该镇表示，公寓游泳池甲板和入口车道下方的防水系统出现故障，导致“这些区域下方的混凝土结构板出现重大结构损坏”《纽约时报》第一个报道了这一消息。

在2018年11月的一封也是由该镇发布的电子邮件中，冲浪场建筑官员罗斯·彼尔托告诉当时的镇经理，他已经会见了尚普兰塔南的居民，“一切都很顺利。”

“房间里每个人的反应都非常积极，”彼尔托在邮件中写道。“他们四十年重新认证过程中的所有主要问题都得到了解决。这座特殊的建筑要到2021年才开始其40年的建设，但他们已经决定尽早开始这一进程，我全心全意地支持这一进程，并希望这一趋势能在其他房地产中流行起来。

苏珊娜·阿尔瓦雷斯(Susanna Alvarez)曾是一名居民，她告诉美国广播公司新闻，彼尔托在2018年的会议上表示，该公寓“状况不错”——这一观点似乎与五周前撰写的结构性实地调查报告相冲突。美国广播公司新闻获得了一份2018年11月的公寓协会会议纪要，其中指出，“彼尔托先生审查了结构工程师报告，尽管该报告不是40年认证的格式，但他确定收集了必要的数据，该建筑看起来状况良好。”

NPR是第一个报道这个消息的人。

美国联合通讯社(Associated Press)

彼尔托没有回应美国广播公司新闻的置评请求。据NPR说，他已不再受雇于该镇。

当被问及对此有何评论时，冲浪运动委员埃利安娜·萨尔扎尔说，彼尔托“对那份报告的解释是误导性的”

萨尔扎尔周日告诉美国广播公司新闻，“我不想相信有人会故意误导他人”。“我认为更多的是他不想让人们恐慌，我不能推测他在想什么，为什么——也许——他甚至没有读到报告的第七页。”

冲浪市长查尔斯·伯克特告诉记者，他已经阅读了2018年的结构实地调查报告，但他还不知道与居民的会面，彼尔托说这座建筑“状况良好”伯克特说，他的办公室正在审查镇官员关于尚普兰塔南的所有信件，这些细节也将在镇上的网站上公布。

威尔弗雷多·李/美联社

2021年6月27日，佛罗里达州Surfside，工作人员在尚普兰塔南公寓的废墟中工作。

佛罗里达州国际大学迈阿密环境研究所的教授西蒙·沃登斯基(Shimon Wdowinski)在2020年进行的一项研究发现，从1993年到1999年，尚普兰塔南公寓所在的地区有地面沉降的迹象。但Wdowinski认为，沉降或土地的逐渐下沉本身可能不会导致建筑物倒塌，他的专长是空间大地测量、自然灾害和海平面上升。

分析天基雷达数据的Wdowinski在上周四的一份声明中说:“当我们测量沉降或看到建筑物移动时，值得检查一下为什么会发生这种情况。”“我们不能从卫星图像上说这是什么原因，但我们可以说这里有运动。”

上周五，莱文·卡瓦告诉美国广播公司新闻，迈阿密戴德县的官员知道这项研究，并正在“调查”。

针对尚普兰塔南公寓协会的诉讼已经代表居民提起，声称部分倒塌是可以避免的，该协会知道或应该知道结构损坏。美国广播公司新闻已经联系了该协会的律师进行评论。

昌丹·卡纳/法新社通过盖蒂图像

人们参观了建筑倒塌受害者的临时纪念碑，就在事故现场附近..

该协会的律师肯尼斯·德克托(Kenneth Direktor)表示，部分倒塌发生在尚普兰塔南公寓协会正准备启动一个新的建设项目进行更新的时候。德克托说，这座建筑已经过了广泛的检查，建筑计划已经提交给镇上，但唯一开始的工作是在屋顶上。

德克托指出，他没有被警告该建筑的任何结构问题或建筑用地。他说，该建筑群受到了水的破坏，但这在海滨地区很常见，不会导致部分坍塌。

“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，”德克托上周四告诉美国广播公司新闻。

Surfside building collapse latest: Death toll rises to 11 as search and rescue enters 5th day

At least 11 peopleare deadand 150 others remain unaccounted for Monday evening after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in SouthFlorida'sMiami-Dade County last week, officials said.

A massive search and rescue operation entered its fifth day, as crews continued tocarefully comb throughthe pancaked pile of debris in hopes of findingsurvivors. The partial collapseoccurredat around 1:15 a.m. local time last Thursday at the Champlain Towers South condominium in the small, beachside town of Surfside, about 6 miles north of Miami Beach. Approximately 55 of the oceanfront complex's 136 units were destroyed, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Assistant Chief Raide Jadallah.

"We're digging through ... rubbles of concrete the size of basketballs, the size of baseballs," Jadallah said during a press conference in Surfside on Monday. "It's going to take time; it's not going to happen overnight."

One body was uncovered in the wreckage on Monday morning and another in the afternoon, bringing the death toll to 11. Meanwhile,136 people who were living or staying in the condominium at the time of the disaster have been accounted for, according to Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, who noted that the numbers are "very fluid" and "will continue to change."

"There is going to be a thorough and full investigation of what led to this tragic event," Levine Cava said during Monday's press conference. "We are going to get to the bottom of what happened here. Right now, our top priority is search and rescue."

'A frantic search'

The remaining structure that still stands was cleared by rescue crews last week and all resources have since shifted focus to the debris, according to Jadallah. Hundreds of first responders and volunteers have been working around the clock to locate any survivors or human remains in the rubble. Crews have cut a 125-foot long, 20-foot wide and 40-foot deep trench through the pile to help enhance their search, according to Levine Cava.

As of Monday afternoon, crews had still not physically reached the bottom of the pile but cameras placed inside showed voids and air pockets where people could be trapped, according to Jadallah, who said they are not yet ready to transition their efforts from rescue to recovery.

More than 80 rescuers are working on the pile at a time, listening for sounds and trying to tunnel through. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Andy Alvarez, the deputy incident commander overseeing search and rescue efforts, described the process as both frantic and painstaking.

"This is a frantic search to continue to see that hope, that miracle, to see who we can bring out of this building alive," Alvarez told ABC News in an interview Monday on "Good Morning America."

The conditions on the pile are "bad" and "not ideal" for rescuers, Alvarez said, due to heat, humidity and rain. But search and rescue efforts are still continuing 24-hours a day.

"We're holding up because we're all holding up for that hope, that faith that we are going to be able to rescue somebody," he added. "We are working tirelessly to try to bring victims that are underneath that rubble and rescue them."

Crews are using various equipment and technology, including underground sonar systems that can detect victims and crane trucks that can remove huge slabs of concrete from the pile, according to Alvarez.

"Now that we have those huge cranes, we are doing big lifts," he said. "That's going to aid us in being able to laminate this building, almost like an onion, so that we can get inside and, again, find those voids that we know might possibly be there and rescue those people."

Alvarez, who was among the rescuers sent to Haiti in 2010 to help find survivors after a devastating earthquake, urged those who have loved ones missing to hold out hope.

"You've got to have hope and you've got to have faith," he said. "Every single task force from the state of Florida is here."

Some of the first responders are members of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's urban search and rescue team, Florida Task Force-1, which is part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's National Urban Search and Rescue Response System and has been deployed to disasters across the country and around the world.

"For us, this is personal," Obed Frometa, a fire lieutenant with Florida Task Force 1, told ABC News on Sunday. "Team members know folks, individuals that are trapped in that debris that were victims in this event. It's been tough getting our teams off of these piles, you know, they want to keep going."

Although officials have continued to express hope that more people will be found alive, no survivors have been discovered in the rubble of the building since the morning it partially collapsed. Stacie Fang, 54, and her 15-year-old son, Jonah Handler, were both pulled from the wreckage alive early Thursday and transported to a local hospital, where Fang later died.

Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Alan R. Cominsky told reporters the recovered bodies have been discovered throughout the site, which has been categorized by crews into grids.

"It’s not in one specific isolated area," he said.

Officials have asked families of the missing to provide DNA samples and unique characteristics of their loved ones, such as tattoos and scars, to help identify those found in the wreckage.

On Sunday afternoon, relatives of those unaccounted for boarded several public transit buses at the Grand Beach Hotel in Miami Beach, where a family reunification center has been set up. They were escorted by local police to an area near the disaster site so they could privately grieve, pray and hold vigils for their missing loved ones.

What went wrong

The cause of the partial collapse to a building that has withstood decades of hurricanesremains unknown. The Miami-Dade Police Department is leading an investigation into the incident.

So far, there is no evidence of foul play, according to Levine Cava.

"Of course, it's not ruled out," the Miami-Dade County mayor told ABC News last Friday. "Nothing's ruled out. But, at this point, nothing to indicate that."

Built in the 1980s, the Champlain Towers South was up for its 40-year recertification and had been undergoing roof work at the time of the partial collapse, with further renovations planned, according to Surfside officials.

A structural field survey report from October 2018, which was among hundreds of pages of public documentsreleasedby the town late Sunday, said the waterproofing below the condominium's pool deck and entrance drive was failing and causing "major structural damage to the concrete structural slab below these areas." The New York Times was first to report the news.

In a November 2018 email, also released by the town, a Surfside building official, Ross Prieto, told the then-town manager that he had met with the Champlain Towers South residents and "it went very well."

"The response was very positive from everyone in the room," Prieto wrote in the email. "All main concerns over their forty year recertification process were addressed. This particular building is not due to begin their forty year until 2021 but they have decided to start the process early which I wholeheartedly endorse and wish that this trend would catch on with other properties.

A former resident, Susanna Alvarez, told ABC News that Prieto said during the 2018 meeting that the condominium was "not in bad shape" -- a sentiment that appears to conflict with the structural field survey report penned five weeks earlier. ABC News obtained a copy of the November 2018 condo association meeting minutes which stated the, "Structural engineer report was reviewed by Mr. Prieto although report was not in the format for the 40 year certification he determined the necessary data was collected and it appears the building is in very good shape."

NPR was the first to report the news.

Prieto has not responded to ABC News' request for comment. According to NPR, he is no longer employed by the town.

When asked for comment, Surfside commissioner Eliana Salzhauer said Prieto's "interpretation of that report was misleading."

"I don't want to believe that some would go out of their way to mislead someone," Salzhauer told ABC News on Sunday. "I think it was more about he didn't want people to panic, and I can't speculate as to what was in his mind, why -- maybe -- he never even got to page seven of the report."

Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett told reporters he has read the 2018 structural field survey report but that he was not yet aware of the meeting with the residents where Prieto said the building was "not in a bad shape." Burkett said his office is going through every correspondence that town officials have made regarding the Champlain Towers South and those details will also be published on the town's website.

A 2020 study conducted by Shimon Wdowinski, a professor at Florida International University's Institute of Environment in Miami, found signs of land subsidence from 1993 to 1999 in the area where the Champlain Towers South condominium is located. But subsidence, or the gradual sinking of land, likely would not on its own cause a building to collapse, according to Wdowinski, whose expertise is in space geodesy, natural hazards and sea level rise.

"When we measure subsidence or when we see movement of the buildings, it's worth checking why it happens," Wdowinski, who analyzed space-based radar data, said in a statement last Thursday. "We cannot say what is the reason for that from the satellite images but we can say there was movement here."

Miami-Dade County officials are aware of the study and are "looking into" it, Levine Cava told ABC News last Friday.

Lawsuits against the Champlain Towers South Condo Association have already been filed on behalf of residents, alleging the partial collapse could have been avoided and that the association knew or should have known about the structural damage. ABC News has reached out to the association's attorneys for comment.

The partial collapse happened as the Champlain Towers South Condo Association was preparing to start a new construction project to make updates, according to Kenneth Direktor, a lawyer for the association. Direktor said the building had been through extensive inspections and the construction plans had already been submitted to the town but the only work that had begun was on the roof.

Direktor noted that 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 complex, but that is common for oceanfront properties and wouldn't have caused the partial collapse.

"Nothing like this has ever been seen, at least not in the 40 years I've been doing this," Direktor told ABC News last Thursday.