BREAKING: Search of collapsed Florida condo to shift from rescue effort to recovery operation as hope dwindles of finding survivors.
The news followed increasingly somber reports from emergency officials, who indicated they had been preparing families for the worst outcome.
For about two weeks after Champlain Towers South collapsed, officials stressed their focus on finding survivors — a hope that was rekindled after workers demolished the remainder of the building, allowing rescuers access to new areas of debris. The hope was that they might find “voids,” or open pockets in the rubble where someone could have survived.
After initially hoping for miraculous rescues, families have slowly begun bracing themselves for the news that their relatives did not survive.