包括三名儿童在内的至少22人已经死亡确认死亡自上周南佛罗里达迈阿密戴德县的一栋12层住宅楼部分倒塌以来，还有126人下落不明。
部分崩溃发生6月24日凌晨1点15分左右，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。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。从那以后，数百名急救人员仔细梳理希望找到的碎片幸存者。
迈阿密戴德县市长丹妮尔·莱文·卡瓦在周五晚上的新闻发布会上说，周五，随着工作人员搜索倒塌区域，又有两具尸体被从废墟中拖出。
据莱文·卡瓦(Levine Cava)称，周四晚上还从废墟中拖出两具尸体，其中包括一名7岁女孩，她是迈阿密一名消防员的女儿。迈阿密戴德消防救援队队长艾伦·科明斯基说，这名消防员不是发现女孩尸体的队员，但他得到了通知。
“不言而喻，从上周三开始的每晚都非常困难，”莱文·卡瓦周五早上在冲浪场的新闻发布会上说。“但昨晚与众不同。对我们的第一反应者来说，这真的很不一样，也更困难。”
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搜救人员在废墟上工作时，用担架移走遗体...
与此同时，据莱文·卡瓦(Levine Cava)称，灾难发生时住在公寓里或住在公寓里的188人已经得到解释，他们是安全的。他强调，这些数字“非常不稳定”，“继续变化”。随着侦探们继续审查据报失踪人员的名单，这些人的人数已经上升，莱文·卡瓦称这是“非常好的消息”。
然而，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，周五发现更多人活着的希望似乎正在消退。
科明斯基说，救援人员在发现第一反应者自己的女儿后“情绪激动”，这“需要付出代价”。但他说，这不会阻止他们继续寻找仍然失踪的人。
“我只是希望我们会有一些幸存者，”科明斯基在周五上午的新闻发布会上说。
迈阿密市消防救援部门负责人约瑟夫·扎拉尔班后来在一份声明中证实，该小组的一名成员在灾难中失去了他7岁的女儿。
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工作人员将遗体放在担架上，放入迈阿密戴德县验尸官的货车中...
大规模的搜救行动已经进入第九天暂时停止周四的大部分时间，出于对该建筑仍然屹立的部分的结构完整性的安全考虑。根据联邦应急管理局城市搜索和救援支持小组的结构专家斯科特·纳希曼的说法，瓦砾堆和剩余结构的移动导致了长达几个小时的暂停。
周五，莱文·卡瓦签署了一项紧急命令，授权拆除公寓的其余部分，“为了公共健康和安全，”她说。
“我们的首要任务仍然是搜索和救援，我想非常清楚这一点，我们不会采取任何会危及我们继续搜索和救援任务能力的行动，”她说。“我要承认，这不是我们轻易做出的决定，我尤其知道这对逃离大楼、失去家园和财产的家庭来说有多困难。这座建筑对公众健康和安全构成威胁，拆除它对保护我们的社区至关重要。”
正在帮助制定该计划的纳赫曼告诉记者，在“明确的时间表”出台之前，还需要“数周”。莱文·卡瓦说，签署紧急命令将“帮助我们快速行动”。
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救援人员在废墟中搜索尚普兰塔南公寓，2021年6月26日，在佛罗里达州Surfside。
上周，工作人员清理了这座建筑，此后，所有的搜索和救援资源都转移到了废墟上。但这两个地点是并排的，剩余的建筑给试图在残骸中找到幸存者或人类遗骸的救援人员带来了挑战。
“考虑到我们对建筑完整性的持续安全担忧，我们继续限制进入倒塌区，”莱文·卡瓦(Levine Cava)周四晚上在冲浪场的新闻发布会上说。
周四晚上，搜救工作恢复后不久，迈阿密戴德县市长指出，救援人员“看起来非常非常兴奋地回到那里。”
莱文·卡瓦(Levine Cava)周五上午告诉记者，结构工程师正在努力在安全的情况下尽快扩大搜索范围。
“我们到了，第九天，”她说。“我们的第一反应者一直在努力工作，就像他们一直以来所做的那样，继续在他们能到达的地方搜寻。”
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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。
炎热、潮湿、暴雨、强风和闪电风暴也使救援人员的条件变得困难，迫使他们在最近几天周期性地暂停24小时的工作。随着大西洋飓风季节的到来，官员们正在监测该地区的天气系统。
佛罗里达州州长罗恩·德桑蒂斯说，他的办公室正开始准备一份潜在的紧急状态声明，因为艾尔莎飓风这是大西洋季的第一场，可能会打到冲浪区。风暴的路线还不清楚，但德桑蒂斯说热带风暴最早可能在周日晚上到达南佛罗里达。因此，官员们正在做必要的准备，以确保搜索区域和Surfside的剩余结构得到保护。
德桑蒂斯在周五上午的新闻发布会上表示:“这正是我们所做的，但我们特别强调这个网站，因为我们理解其中的敏感性。”
乔·拜登总统和第一夫人吉尔·拜登旅客多的周四去冲浪区会见官员、第一反应者、搜救队以及受害者家属。回忆起1972年导致他的第一任妻子和一岁女儿死亡以及两个儿子严重受伤的车祸，总统告诉记者:“失去某人已经够糟糕的了，但最困难的部分，真正困难的部分，是不知道他们是否能活下来。”
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乔·拜登总统和第一夫人吉尔·拜登参观了一面照片墙，即“希望与备忘录的冲浪墙”...
一座经受了几十年飓风的建筑部分倒塌的原因仍然未知而且是在调查研究中。
官员们说，尚普兰南塔建于20世纪80年代，已经进行了40年的重新认证，当它部分倒塌时，一直在进行屋顶工作——计划进行更多的翻新。
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，Surfside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”。
已经代表幸存者和受害者对尚普兰塔南公寓协会提起了一系列诉讼，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。该协会的一名发言人告诉美国广播公司新闻，他们不能对悬而未决的诉讼发表评论，但他们的“重点仍然是在这个困难时期照顾我们的朋友和邻居。”
该协会的董事会星期五发表声明说，其幸存的成员“已经得出结论，为了所有有关各方的最佳利益，应该任命一个独立的接管人来监督法律和索赔过程。”
“我们知道，作为全面调查的一部分，答案需要时间，”声明继续说，“我们将继续与城市、州、地方和联邦官员合作进行救援工作，并了解这场悲剧的原因。”
官员们说，在冲浪场大楼倒塌后，北迈阿密海滩市出于与40年重新认证过程有关的安全考虑，下令立即关闭另一栋公寓。
城市官员在一份声明中说，根据对周五提交的重新认证报告的审查，快思聪大厦公寓“在结构和电气方面都不安全”。
“北迈阿密海滩市已经采取了我们建议审查的步骤，以确保及时完成重新认证过程。据我所知，作为审计的结果，他们发现了一栋尚未重新认证的建筑，当信息进来时，他们采取了一些措施，”莱文·卡瓦周五晚上说。
据报道，大约300名居民不得不撤离美国广播公司迈阿密分公司，同时进行全面的结构评估。
这套156个单元的公寓建于1972年。
Surfside building collapse latest: Death toll rises to 22, including child of firefighter
At least 22 people, including three children, have beenconfirmed deadand 126 others remain unaccounted for since a 12-story residential building partially collapsed in South Florida's Miami-Dade County last week.
The partial collapseoccurredaround 1:15 a.m. on June 24 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. Since then, hundreds of first responders have beencarefully combing throughthe debris in hopes of findingsurvivors.
Two more bodies were pulled from the rubble Friday, as crews search the area of the collapse, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said at a press briefing Friday evening.
Two bodies also were pulled from the rubble on Thursday night, including that of a 7-year-old girl who was the daughter of a Miami firefighter, according to Levine Cava. The firefighter was not part of the crew that discovered the girl's body but he was notified, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Chief Alan Cominsky.
"It goes without saying that every night since this last Wednesday has been immensely difficult," Levine Cava said during a press briefing in Surfside on Friday morning. "But last night was uniquely different. It was truly different and more difficult for our first responders."
Meanwhile, 188 people who were living or staying in the condominium at the time of the disaster have been accounted for and are safe, according to Levine Cava, who has stressed that the figures are "very fluid" and "continue to change." The number of those accounted for has gone up as detectives continue to audit the list of people reported missing, a development that Levine Cava called "very good news."
However, no survivors have been discovered in the rubble of the building since the morning it partially collapsed, and the hope that more people would be found alive appeared to be fading Friday.
Cominsky said rescue workers are "emotional" after the discovery of a first responder's own daughter, which "takes a toll." But he said that won't stop them from continuing to search for those who are still missing.
"I just was hoping that we would have some survivors," Cominsky said at the press briefing on Friday morning.
City of Miami Department of Fire Rescue Chief Joseph Zahralban later confirmed in a statement that a member of the team lost his 7-year-old daughter in the disaster.
The massive search and rescue operation, now in its ninth day, wastemporarily haltedfor much of Thursday due to safety concerns regarding the structural integrity of the still-standing section of the building. Movement in the pile of rubble as well as in the remaining structure prompted the hours-long pause, according to Scott Nacheman, a structure specialist with the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Urban Search and Rescue support team.
On Friday, Levine Cava signed an emergency order authorizing the demolition of the rest of the condominium "in the interest of public health and safety," she said.
"Our top priority remains search and rescue, I want to be very clear about that, and we will take no action that will jeopardize our ability to continue the search and rescue mission," she said. "I want to acknowledge that this was not a decision we made lightly, and I know especially how difficult this is for the families who escaped the building and who have lost their homes and their belongings. The building poses a threat to public health and safety, and bringing it down as is critical to protect our community."
Nacheman, who is helping develop the plans, told reporters it would be "weeks" before a "definitive timeline" is available. Signing the emergency order will "help us move quickly," Levine Cava said.
The structure was cleared by crews last week, and all search and rescue resources have since been shifted to focusing on the pile of rubble. But the two sites are side-by-side and the remaining building has posed challenges for the rescuers trying to locate any survivors or human remains in the wreckage.
"Given our ongoing safety concerns about the integrity of the building, we're continuing to restrict access to the collapse zone," Levine Cava said during a press briefing in Surfside on Thursday evening.
Shortly after search and rescue efforts resumed Thursday evening, the Miami-Dade County mayor noted that the crews "looked really, really excited to get back out there."
Levine Cava told reporters on Friday morning that structural engineers are working to expand the search area as quickly as possible when it is safe to do so.
"Here we are, day nine," she said. "Our first responders have been hard at work, as they have been this entire time, continuing to search through the pile that is accessible to them."
Heat, humidity, heavy rain, strong winds and lightning storms have also made the conditions difficult for rescuers, periodically forcing them to pause their round-the-clock efforts in recent days. Officials are monitoring weather systems in the region as the Atlantic hurricane season ramps up.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said his office is beginning to prepare a potential state of emergency declaration due toHurricane Elsa, the first of the Atlantic season, which could possibly hit Surfside. The storm's track is not yet clear, but DeSantis said tropical force winds could arrive in South Florida as early as Sunday night. So officials are making the necessary preparations to ensure that both the search area and the remaining structure in Surfside is protected.
"This is just what we do but we are adding the special emphasis on this site because we understand the sensitivities involved," DeSantis said during the press briefing on Friday morning.
President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Bidentraveledto Surfside on Thursday to meet with officials, first responders, search and rescue teams, as well as families of the victims. Recalling the 1972 car accident that killed his first wife and 1-year-old daughter as well as badly injuring his two sons, the president told reporters: "It's bad enough to lose somebody but the hard part, the really hard part, is to not know whether they'll survive or not."
The cause of the partial collapse to a building that has withstood decades of hurricanesremains unknownand isunder investigation.
Built in the 1980s, the Champlain Towers South was up for its 40-year recertification and had been undergoing roof work -- with more renovations planned -- when it partially collapsed, according to officials.
A structural field survey report from October 2018, which was among hundreds of pages of public documentsreleasedby the town of Surfside 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."
A slew of lawsuits against the Champlain Towers South Condo Association have already been filed on behalf of survivors and victims, 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 association told ABC News they cannot comment on pending litigation but that their "focus remains on caring for our friends and neighbors during this difficult time."
The association's board released a statement Friday saying its surviving members "have concluded that, in the best interest of all concerned parties, an independent Receiver should be appointed to oversee the legal and claims process."
"We know that answers will take time as part of a comprehensive investigation," the statement continued, "and we will continue to work with city, state, local, and federal officials in their rescue efforts, and to understand the causes of this tragedy."
In the wake of the Surfside building collapse, the city of North Miami Beach ordered that another condominium close immediately amid safety concerns connected to the 40-year recertification process, officials said.
The Crestview Towers Condominium is "structurally and electrically unsafe," based on the review of a recertification report submitted Friday, city officials said in a statement.
"The city of North Miami Beach has taken the steps that we recommended to review to make sure that the recertification process was being done in a timely basis. And as I understand it, as a result of that audit, they found a building that had not been recertified, and when the information came in, they took some steps," Levine Cava said Friday evening.
Some 300 residents have to evacuate, according toABC Miami affiliate WPLG, while a full structural assessment is conducted.
The 156-unit condo was built in 1972.
