至少有十几个人都死了南方一栋12层的住宅楼部分倒塌，另有149人下落不明佛罗里达州官员们说，上周美国迈阿密戴德县。

周二，大规模搜救行动进入第六天，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。

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救援人员用水桶清除部分坍塌的尚普兰现场的碎片..

迈阿密戴德县市长丹妮尔·莱文·卡瓦告诉记者，周二下午又发现了一具尸体。

根据卡瓦的说法，到目前为止，灾难发生时住在公寓里的125人已经得到了解释，他指出这些数字“非常不稳定”。

冲浪市长查尔斯·伯克特承认，有人质疑一个人在废墟下能活多久，他告诉记者:“这个问题似乎没有好的答案。”但是他坚持说搜救工作仍在继续，没有减弱。

“这里没有人放弃希望。没有人会停下来，”伯克特周二在冲浪场的新闻发布会上说。"我们致力于让每个人从那堆瓦砾中走出来。"

根据白宫的一份声明，乔·拜登总统和第一夫人吉尔·拜登将于周四前往冲浪胜地。上周，总统批准了佛罗里达州的紧急声明，并下令联邦援助，以补充州和地方在部分建筑倒塌后的应对努力。

白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基(Jen Psaki)周二对记者表示:“他们要感谢英勇的第一反应者、搜救队和每一个夜以继日不知疲倦地工作的人，并与被迫忍受这场可怕悲剧的家庭会面，他们在痛苦和心碎中等待亲人的消息，在搜救工作继续进行的时候给他们安慰。”“他们希望确保州和地方官员拥有紧急状态声明所要求的资源和支持。”

在“疯狂搜寻”幸存者的过程中，希望没有破灭

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。然而，暴雨和闪电风暴周期性地迫使他们暂停努力。

据伯克特称，周二，由于碎片掉落，工地的一个区域不得不用绳子隔开。

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。迈阿密戴德消防救援队队长艾伦·科明斯基说，截至周二下午，他们已经转移了300多万磅混凝土，相当于850多立方英尺。

“这是一项非常繁琐的工作，”科明斯基在新闻发布会上说。"我们正在一点一点地移动碎片，并进行搜索。"

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以色列国防军搜救队成员在尚普兰托的废墟中工作...

贾达拉说，工作人员还没有到达废墟的底部，但是里面的摄像头显示了人们可能被困的空隙和气穴。贾达拉说，他们还没有准备好从救援向恢复过渡。

与此同时，根据佛罗里达州应急管理部门主任凯文·格思里的说法，自卸卡车已经开始将碎片转移到另一个地点。他告诉记者，救援人员拥有他们需要的“所有资源”。

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2021年6月24日，佛罗里达州迈阿密海滩附近，一幅鸟瞰图显示部分倒塌的建筑。

80多名救援人员——每个人工作12个小时——一次一堆，倾听声音，试图在残骸中穿行。监督搜救工作的迈阿密戴德消防救援队副事故指挥官安迪·阿尔瓦雷斯(Andy Alvarez)形容这一过程既紧迫又艰难。

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。”

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。

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。

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."

马可·贝洛/路透社

人们参加守夜活动，纪念一栋部分倒塌的居民楼的居民...

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。来自以色列和墨西哥的搜救队也加入了冲浪运动。

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。然而，据科明斯基说，尸体已经在整个现场被发现，工作人员已经将这些尸体分类到网格中。消防队长指出，带着受过专门训练的狗的救援人员仍在残骸中“不断”“寻找生命”。

“这就是我们从一开始就在做的事情，”科明斯基在周二下午的新闻发布会上说。“不间断、全天候的搜索。”

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。

周一晚上，数百人聚集在尚普兰塔南附近的海滩上，举行了一场感人的烛光守夜活动来纪念受害者。

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。”

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2021年6月28日，佛罗里达州Surfside，工人们在尚普兰塔南公寓的废墟中搜寻。

据Surfside官员称，建于20世纪80年代的尚普兰南塔已进行了40年的重新认证，并一直在进行屋顶工程。

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。

美国联合通讯社(Associated Press)

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。这座特殊的建筑在2021年之前不会迎来它的40年，但是他们已经决定尽早开始这个过程，我衷心赞同这个过程，并希望这一趋势能在其他房产中流行起来。”

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12层公寓大楼的一部分在b..

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2018年11月尚普兰塔南公寓协会会议纪要的副本，其中指出，彼尔托已经审查了结构现场调查报告，“看来该建筑的形状非常好。”NPR是第一个报道这个消息的人。

彼尔托没有回应美国广播公司新闻部的多次置评请求。根据该市周二下午发布的一份声明，他已被安排“休假”。

该市表示，其合同合作伙伴CAP政府有限公司周一告诉官员，它已“指派另一名员工临时协助多拉尔市建筑部门。”

周一，当被问及彼尔托在2018年的会议中是否误导了居民时，冲浪市长查尔斯·伯克特告诉美国广播公司新闻:“我们必须找到答案。”

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一名男子在部分坍塌现场搜救行动继续的地方附近祈祷..

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”。

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在哈丁大街的一个纪念馆的栅栏上悬挂着失踪人员的照片...

迈阿密戴德州检察官凯瑟琳·费尔南德斯·朗德尔(Katherine Fernandez Rundle)在周二晚上的一份声明中说，她计划“要求我们的大陪审团考虑我们可以采取什么措施来保护我们的居民，而不会危及任何科学、公共安全或潜在的刑事调查”。

她在声明中说:“我个人与国家标准与技术研究所的工程师交谈时知道，他们的调查将需要很长时间来确定这座建筑是如何以及为什么倒塌的。”。“然而，这是一个极其重要的公共事务，作为国家检察官，我不会等待。”

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。

尚普兰塔南公寓协会的发言人说，他们不能对悬而未决的诉讼发表评论，但他们“在这段困难时期，重点仍然是照顾我们的朋友和邻居。”

这位发言人在周一的一份声明中告诉美国广播公司新闻，“我们继续与城市、州和地方官员合作，努力寻找和恢复，并了解这场悲剧的原因。”“我们对所有紧急救援人员——专业人员和志愿者——的不懈努力深表感谢。”

Surfside building collapse latest: Death toll increases to 12

At least a dozen peopleare deadand 149 others remain unaccounted for after a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in SouthFlorida's Miami-Dade County last week, officials said.

A massive search and rescue operation entered its sixth day on Tuesday, 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.

Another body was discovered Tuesday afternoon, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava told reporters.

So far, 125 people who were living or staying in the condominium at the time of the disaster have been accounted for, according to Cava, who noted that the numbers are "very fluid."

Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett acknowledged that there have been questions about how long someone could survive beneath rubble, telling reporters: "There didn't seem to be a good answer to that." But he insisted that search and rescue efforts are continuing unabated.

"Nobody is giving up hope here. Nobody is stopping," Burkett said during a press conference in Surfside on Tuesday. "We are dedicated to getting everyone out of that pile of rubble."

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will travel to Surfside on Thursday, according to a statement from the White House. Last week, the president approved an emergency declaration in Florida and ordered federal assistance to supplement state and local response efforts in the wake of the partial building collapse.

"They want to thank the heroic first responders, search and rescue teams, and everyone who has been working tirelessly around the clock, and meet with the families who have been forced to endure this terrible tragedy waiting in anguish and heartbreak for word of their loved ones, to offer them comfort as search and rescue efforts continue," White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Tuesday. "And they want to make sure that state and local officials have the resources and support they need under the emergency declaration."

Hope not lost amid 'frantic search' for survivors

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. However, heavy rain and lightning storms have periodically forced them to pause their efforts.

One area of the site had to be roped off Tuesday due to falling debris, according to Burkett.

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 Tuesday afternoon, they had moved more than 3 million pounds of concrete, which equates to over 850 cubic feet, said Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Alan Cominsky.

"This is a very tedious effort," Cominsky said at the press conference. "We're moving debris piece by piece and searching through."

Crews have 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.

Meanwhile, dump trucks have begun moving debris to an alternate site, according to Kevin Guthrie, director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, who told reporters that rescuers have "all the resources" they need.

More than 80 rescuers -- each working 12-hour shifts -- are on the pile at a time, listening for sounds and trying to tunnel through the wreckage. Andy Alvarez, the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue's deputy incident commander overseeing search and rescue efforts, described the process as both urgent 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.

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.

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. Search and rescue teams from Israel and Mexico have also joined the efforts in Surfside.

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. Bodies, however, have been uncovered throughout the site, which crews have categorized into grids, according to Cominsky. The fire chief noted that rescuers with specially trained dogs are still "constantly" "searching for life" amid the wreckage.

"That's what we've been doing from the get-go," Cominsky said during the press conference Tuesday afternoon. "Nonstop, around-the-clock searching."

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.

Hundreds of people gathered on the beach near the Champlain Towers South on Monday night for an emotional candlelight vigil to honor the victims.

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, according to Surfside officials.

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.

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 minutes from the November 2018 meeting of the Champlain Towers South Condo Association, which stated that Prieto had reviewed the structural field survey report 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' repeated requests for comment. He has been placed on a “leave of absence," according to a statement released by the city Tuesday afternoon.

The city said that its contracting partner, CAP Government, Inc., told officials on Monday that it has “assigned another employee to assists the City of Doral Building Department on a temporary basis.”

When asked on Monday whether Prieto misled residents during the 2018 meeting, Surfside Mayor Charles Burketttold ABC News: "We're going to have to find out."

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.

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said she plans "to request that our Grand Jury look at what steps we can take to safeguard our residents without jeopardizing any scientific, public safety, or potential criminal investigations" in a statement Tuesday night.

"I know from personally speaking with engineers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology that their investigation to determine exactly how and why the building collapsed will take a long time," she said in her statement. "However, this is a matter of extreme public importance, and as the State Attorney elected to keep this community safe, I will not wait."

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.

A spokesperson for the Champlain Towers South Condo Association said they cannot comment on pending litigation but that their "focus remains on caring for our friends and neighbors during this difficult time."

"We continue to work with city, state, and local officials in their search and recovery efforts, and to understand the causes of this tragedy," the spokesperson told ABC News in a statement Monday. "Our profound thanks go out to all of emergency rescue personnel -- professionals and volunteers alike -- for their tireless efforts."